shut out vs stimulate

shut out

verb
  • To refuse to be open and vulnerable toward. 

  • To prevent from scoring; to perform a shutout. 

  • To hide from sight. 

  • To prevent from entering; to block or exclude. 

stimulate

verb
  • To encourage into action. 

  • To arouse an organism to functional activity. 

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