redact vs tell

redact

verb
  • To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc. 

  • To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process. 

  • To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder. 

  • To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit. 

tell

verb
  • To instruct or inform. 

  • To order; to direct, to say to someone. 

  • To narrate. 

  • To reveal. 

  • To convey by speech; to say. 

  • To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show 

  • To count, reckon, or enumerate. 

  • To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated. 

  • To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing. 

  • To discern, notice, identify or distinguish. 

  • To be revealed. 

  • To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer. 

noun
  • A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper. 

  • A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements. 

  • A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold. 

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