dodge vs overtake

dodge

noun
  • An act of dodging. 

  • A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.) 

  • A line of work. 

adj
  • Dodgy. 

verb
  • To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. 

  • To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. 

  • To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn). 

  • To avoid; to sidestep. 

overtake

noun
  • An act of overtaking; an overtaking maneuver. 

verb
  • To become greater than something else 

  • To occur unexpectedly; take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away 

  • To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic). 

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