overlie vs surround

overlie

verb
  • To suffocate by lying upon 

  • To lie over or upon 

surround

verb
  • To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape. 

  • To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions. 

noun
  • Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something. 

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