dragnet vs urge

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. 

urge

verb
  • To press hard upon; to follow closely. 

  • To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. 

  • To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon. 

  • To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. 

  • To press onward or forward. 

  • To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist. 

  • To provoke; to exasperate. 

noun
  • A strong desire; an itch to do something. 

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