beat out vs suffocate

beat out

verb
  • To extinguish. 

  • To work out fully. 

  • To sound a rhythm on a percussion instrument such as a drum. 

  • To defeat by a narrow margin. 

  • To make gold or silver leaf out of solid metal. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, out. 

suffocate

verb
  • To destroy; to extinguish. 

  • To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation. 

  • To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body. 

  • To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body. 

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