dragnet vs explore

dragnet

verb
  • To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect. 

  • To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water. 

noun
  • Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects. 

  • A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water. 

explore

verb
  • To examine or investigate something systematically. 

  • To travel somewhere in search of discovery. 

  • To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses. 

  • To examine diagnostically. 

  • To (seek) experience first hand. 

  • To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats. 

  • To wander without any particular aim or purpose. 

noun
  • An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like. 

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