cruel vs nix

cruel

verb
  • To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success) 

  • To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive. 

adj
  • Cool; awesome; neat. 

  • Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless. 

  • Harsh; severe. 

adv
  • To a great degree; terribly. 

nix

verb
  • To destroy or eradicate. 

  • To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel. 

noun
  • Nothing. 

  • A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie. 

intj
  • No! Not at all! 

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