incept vs strike out

incept

verb
  • To begin. 

  • To take in or ingest. 

  • To put an idea into a person's mind so deeply that they believe it was their own. Inspired by the movie Inception (2010) and used by Mark Zuckerberg & Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation at 01:23:00. 

  • To be accepted to the Master of Arts degree at Oxford or Cambridge University. 

strike out

verb
  • To begin to make one's way. 

  • To draw a line through some text such as a printed or written sentence, with the purpose of deleting that text from the rest of the document. 

  • To fail; to be refused a request or to have a proposal not be accepted, in particular a request for a (hopefully romantic) date. 

  • To lash out; to strike or hit at someone or something, particularly something in arm's length of the striker and at or near the level of the striker's head. 

  • To strongly criticize or make a verbal attack, particularly as a response to previous criticism or provocation. 

  • to treat something as settled 

  • Of a batter, to be retired after three strikes (missed swings, as opposed to any other way of becoming "out"); of a pitcher, to cause this to happen to the batter. 

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