pull up vs raze

pull up

verb
  • To cause (a person) to stop. 

  • To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins). 

  • To raise the nose of an aircraft. 

  • To cause (a horse) to stop when riding. 

  • To fetch for display on a screen. 

  • To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point. 

  • To admonish or criticize someone for their actions. 

  • To lift upwards or vertically. 

  • To pull forward. 

  • To improve; to get better; to lift one's game. 

  • To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to. 

raze

verb
  • To destroy; to strike out of existence; to obliterate. 

  • To scrape as if with a razor. 

  • To demolish; to level to the ground. 

noun
  • A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through. 

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