dry up vs garrotte

dry up

verb
  • To deprive someone of (something vital). 

  • To manually dry dishes. 

  • To cause to become dry. 

  • To cease to exist; to disappear 

  • To become dry (often of weather); to lose water. 

  • When our money dried up, we had to get proper jobs. 

  • To stop talking; to forget what one was going to say. 

garrotte

verb
  • To execute by strangulation. 

  • To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob. 

noun
  • A cord, wire or similar used for strangulation. 

  • An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation. 

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