stake out vs view

stake out

verb
  • To watch a location and/or people, generally covertly. 

  • To mark off the limits by stakes 

  • To end the game by hitting the stake peg in the middle of the court. 

view

verb
  • To look at. 

  • To regard in a stated way. 

noun
  • A wake. 

  • The act of seeing or looking at something. 

  • A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases. 

  • A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory. 

  • An individual viewing of a web page or a video etc. by a user. 

  • Something to look at, such as scenery. 

  • The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with 

  • The range of vision. 

  • A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch. 

  • A point of view. 

  • A mental image. 

  • An intention or prospect. 

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