seek vs want

seek

verb
  • To ask for; to solicit; to beseech. 

  • To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at. 

  • To try to find; to look for; to search for. 

  • To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to. 

  • To navigate through a stream. 

  • To attempt, endeavour, try 

noun
  • The operation of navigating through a stream. 

want

verb
  • To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand. 

  • To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it. 

  • To desire (to experience desire); to wish. 

  • To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun). 

  • To be advised to do something (compare should, ought). 

  • To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with. 

noun
  • A desire, wish, longing. 

  • Poverty. 

  • Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt. 

  • A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place. 

  • Lack, absence, deficiency. 

  • A mole (Talpa europea). 

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