environ vs mimic

environ

verb
  • Of a person: to be positioned or stationed around (someone or something) to attend to or protect them. 

  • To cover, enclose, or envelop (someone or something). 

  • To encircle or surround (someone or something). 

  • To encircle or surround (someone or something) so as to attack from all sides; to beset. 

  • Of a situation or state of affairs, especially danger or trouble: to happen to and affect (someone or something). 

  • Followed by from: to hide or shield (someone or something). 

noun
  • A surrounding area or place (especially of an urban settlement); an environment. 

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 environ and mimic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )