fracture vs stymie

fracture

verb
  • To break, or cause something to break. 

  • To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides. 

noun
  • A break in bone or cartilage. 

  • An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken. 

  • A fault or crack in a rock. 

stymie

verb
  • To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck. 

  • To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie. 

noun
  • A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952). 

  • An obstacle or obstruction. 

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