dead-end vs thoroughfare

dead-end

noun
  • A road with no exit. 

  • A position that offers no hope of progress. 

adj
  • Going nowhere; blocked. 

verb
  • To come to a dead-end. 

thoroughfare

noun
  • A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street. 

  • An unobstructed waterway allowing passage for ships. 

  • The act of going through; passage; travel, transit. 

  • A passage; a way through. 

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