crucify vs thrash

crucify

verb
  • To thoroughly beat at a sport or game. 

  • To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage. 

  • To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross. 

thrash

verb
  • To beat mercilessly. 

  • To defeat utterly. 

  • To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result. 

  • In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system. 

  • To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour. 

  • To thresh. 

noun
  • A beat or blow; the sound of beating. 

  • thrash metal 

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