interrupt vs intersperse

interrupt

verb
  • To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of. 

  • To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly. 

  • To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled. 

noun
  • An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition. 

intersperse

verb
  • To diversify by placing or inserting other things among something. 

  • To scatter or insert something into or among other things. 

  • To mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other. 

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