dead-end vs swindle

dead-end

verb
  • To come to a dead-end. 

adj
  • Going nowhere; blocked. 

noun
  • A road with no exit. 

  • A position that offers no hope of progress. 

swindle

verb
  • To defraud. 

  • for a player in a losing position to play a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw 

  • To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods. 

noun
  • when a player in a losing position plays a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw 

  • Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be. 

  • An instance of swindling. 

How often have the words dead-end and swindle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )