amelioration vs hurt

amelioration

noun
  • An improvement. 

  • The act of making better. 

  • The process by which a term gains a more positive connotation over time. 

  • An ameliorative change of a concept or a repertoire of concepts. 

hurt

noun
  • A husk. 

  • A roundel azure (blue circular spot). 

  • A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions. 

  • An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. 

adj
  • Wounded, physically injured. 

  • Pained. 

verb
  • To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury. 

  • To be painful. 

  • To cause (somebody) emotional pain. 

  • To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede. 

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