defend vs mimic

defend

verb
  • To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard. 

  • To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring. 

  • To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition. 

  • To call a raise from the big blind. 

  • To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of. 

  • To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused). 

mimic

verb
  • To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage. 

  • To imitate, especially in order to ridicule. 

adj
  • Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry. 

  • Pertaining to mimicry; imitative. 

  • Mock, pretended. 

noun
  • An imitation. 

  • A comic who does impressions. 

  • An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator. 

  • A mime. 

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