agitate vs knock off

agitate

verb
  • To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person). 

  • To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake. 

knock off

verb
  • To remove by hitting (something, someone) 

  • To rob. 

  • To defeat. 

  • To halt one's work or other activity. 

  • To have sex with. 

  • To remove, as a discount or estimate. 

  • To make a copy of, as of a design. 

  • To assign (an item) to a bidder at an auction, indicated by knocking on the counter. 

  • To kill. 

  • To accomplish hastily. 

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