arrest vs follow

arrest

verb
  • To catch the attention of. 

  • To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. 

  • To stop or slow (a process, course etc.). 

  • To undergo cardiac arrest. 

noun
  • The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators. 

  • A device to physically arrest motion. 

  • The condition of being stopped, standstill. 

  • A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something. 

  • A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse 

  • The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc. 

  • A confinement, detention, as after an arrest. 

follow

verb
  • To understand, to pay attention to. 

  • To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling. 

  • To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform. 

  • To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc). 

  • To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.). 

  • To be a logical consequence of something. 

  • To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person. 

  • To go or come after in a sequence. 

  • To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching. 

noun
  • In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it. 

  • The act of following another user's online activity. 

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