cook vs prepare

cook

verb
  • To be cooked. 

  • To tamper with or alter; to cook up. 

  • To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.) 

  • To concoct or prepare. 

  • To play music vigorously. 

  • To execute by electric chair. 

  • To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients. 

  • To be uncomfortably hot. 

  • To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown. 

noun
  • The degree or quality of cookedness of food 

  • One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth. 

  • A person who prepares food. 

  • A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus. 

  • The head cook of a manor house 

  • A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth. 

prepare

verb
  • To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook. 

  • To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip. 

  • To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound. 

  • To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation. 

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