dragnet vs seek

dragnet

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

  • To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect. 

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

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

seek

verb
  • To navigate through a stream. 

  • To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at. 

  • To try to find; to look for; to search for. 

  • To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to. 

  • To ask for; to solicit; to beseech. 

  • To attempt, endeavour, try 

noun
  • The operation of navigating through a stream. 

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