drown vs garrote

drown

verb
  • To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. 

  • To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. 

  • To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. 

  • To inundate, submerge, overwhelm. 

  • To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items. 

garrote

verb
  • to kill using a garrote 

  • to execute by strangulation 

noun
  • an iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation 

  • something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation 

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