dragnet vs prosecute

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. 

prosecute

verb
  • To start criminal proceedings against. 

  • To seek to obtain by legal process. 

  • To charge, try. 

  • To pursue something to the end. 

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