dodge vs encourage

dodge

verb
  • To avoid; to sidestep. 

  • To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. 

  • To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. 

  • To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn). 

noun
  • An act of dodging. 

  • A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.) 

  • A line of work. 

adj
  • Dodgy. 

encourage

verb
  • To spur on, strongly recommend. 

  • To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit. 

  • To foster, give help or patronage 

How often have the words dodge and encourage occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )