dragnet vs prowl

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. 

prowl

verb
  • To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty. 

  • To idle; to go about aimlessly. 

noun
  • The act of prowling. 

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