assist vs lock up

assist

verb
  • To help. 

  • To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring. 

  • To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy. 

noun
  • A decisive pass made to the goal scorer 

  • A helpful action or an act of giving. 

  • A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout. 

lock up

verb
  • To stop moving; to seize. 

  • To invest in something long term. 

  • To close all doors and windows (of a place) securely. 

  • To (mistakenly) cause or have one of one's wheels to lock up (stop spinning). 

  • To lose one's forward momentum; to freeze. 

  • To imprison or incarcerate (someone). 

  • To cause (a program) to cease responding or to freeze. 

  • To stop spinning due to excessive braking torque. 

  • To travel through a flight of locks on a waterway in an uphill direction. 

  • To cease responding; to freeze. 

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