cowed vs crushed

cowed

adj
  • Frightened into submission. 

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:cowed. 

crushed

adj
  • Broken, saddened, depressed. 

  • Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed. 

  • Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments. 

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