dragnet vs prevaricate

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. 

prevaricate

verb
  • To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution. 

  • To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it. 

  • To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to deviate from the truth; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous. 

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