dead-end vs truncate

dead-end

adj
  • Going nowhere; blocked. 

verb
  • To come to a dead-end. 

noun
  • A road with no exit. 

  • A position that offers no hope of progress. 

truncate

adj
  • Truncated. 

  • Having an abrupt termination. 

verb
  • To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off. 

  • To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits. 

  • To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal). 

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