carve vs erase

carve

verb
  • To cut meat in order to serve it. 

  • To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work. 

  • To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path. 

  • To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. 

  • To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan. 

noun
  • The act of carving 

erase

verb
  • To kill; assassinate. 

  • To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play 

  • To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite. 

  • To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize. 

  • To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society. 

  • to remove markings or information 

  • To be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information). 

noun
  • The operation of deleting data. 

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