exit vs knife

exit

verb
  • To give up the lead. 

  • To depart from life; to die. 

  • To depart from or leave (a place or situation). 

  • To leave a scene or depart from a stage. 

  • Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage. 

  • To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave. 

  • To alight or disembark from a vehicle. 

  • To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.) 

noun
  • A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway). 

  • An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure. 

  • An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress. 

  • The act of departing from life; death. 

  • The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage. 

knife

verb
  • To betray, especially in the context of a political slate. 

  • To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut. 

  • To cut with a knife. 

  • To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon. 

  • To cut through as if with a knife. 

noun
  • A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger. 

  • A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing. 

  • Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper. 

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