cripple vs strengthen

cripple

verb
  • To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired. 

  • To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless. 

  • To damage seriously; to destroy. 

  • To nerf something which is overpowered. 

  • To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally. 

noun
  • a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body. 

  • A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window. 

  • A rocky shallow in a stream. 

  • scrapple. 

strengthen

verb
  • To empower; to give moral strength to; to encourage; to enhearten. 

  • To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify. 

  • To reinforce, to add to, to support (someone or something) 

  • To grow strong or stronger. 

  • To substantiate; to corroborate (a belief, argument, etc.) 

  • To augment; to improve; to intensify. 

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