nix vs set adrift

nix

verb
  • To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel. 

  • To destroy or eradicate. 

intj
  • No! Not at all! 

noun
  • Nothing. 

  • A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie. 

set adrift

verb
  • To send a ship, boat or raft out to sea without a crew or resources to steer it. 

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