dragnet vs pursuit

dragnet

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

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

verb
  • To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect. 

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

pursuit

noun
  • The act of pursuing. 

  • A hobby or recreational activity, done regularly. 

  • A discipline in track cycling where two opposing teams start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch their opponents. 

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