pull through vs survive

pull through

verb
  • To assist someone through difficulties, injury, pain, etc. 

  • To clean the barrel of a firearm using a pull through. 

  • To come through pain and trouble through perseverance. 

noun
  • The trick of apparently cutting the cards while leaving the deck in the same sequence as before. 

  • A length of cord about a metre long with a narrow cylindrical weight at one end and loops at the other. Used for cleaning rifle barrels, by pulling through a piece of cloth. 

survive

verb
  • To be a victim of usually non-fatal harm, to honor and empower the strength of an individual to heal, in particular a living victim of sexual abuse or assault. 

  • Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive. 

  • Of an object or concept, to continue to exist. 

  • To live past a life-threatening event. 

  • Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league. 

  • To live longer than; to outlive. 

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