clatter vs smash

clatter

noun
  • A loud disturbance. 

  • A rattling noise; a repetition of abrupt, sharp sounds. 

  • Noisy talk or chatter. 

verb
  • To hit; to smack. 

  • To make a rattling sound. 

  • To chatter noisily or rapidly. 

smash

noun
  • The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together. 

  • Airspeed; dynamic pressure. 

  • A traffic collision. 

  • Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc). 

  • A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink. 

  • A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward. 

verb
  • To ruin completely and suddenly. 

  • To break (something brittle) violently. 

  • To be destroyed by being smashed. 

  • To deform through continuous pressure. 

  • To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over. 

  • To have sexual intercourse with. 

  • To hit extremely hard. 

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