crush vs kill

crush

verb
  • To oppress or grievously burden. 

  • To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass. 

  • To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding. 

  • To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force. 

  • To feel infatuation or unrequited love. 

  • To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to. 

  • To overwhelm by pressure or weight. 

  • To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display. 

  • To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.). 

  • To overcome completely; to subdue totally. 

noun
  • A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling. 

  • The human object of such infatuation or affection. 

  • A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure. 

  • The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place. 

  • A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. 

  • A group or gang. 

  • A crowd control barrier. 

  • The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display. 

  • A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing. 

  • A violent crowding. 

  • A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit. 

  • Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd. 

  • An infatuation with somebody one is not dating. 

kill

verb
  • To punish severely. 

  • To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point. 

  • To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt. 

  • To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay. 

  • To produce intense pain. 

  • To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate. 

  • To put to death; to extinguish the life of. 

  • To exert oneself to an excessive degree. 

  • To exert an overwhelming effect on. 

  • To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate. 

  • To force a company out of business. 

  • To deadmelt. 

  • To render inoperative. 

  • To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy. 

  • To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in. 

  • To use up or to waste. 

  • To cause to assume the value zero. 

  • To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network. 

  • To sexually penetrate in a skillful way. 

  • To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat. 

noun
  • The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally. 

  • Specifically, the death blow. 

  • A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea. 

  • The act of killing. 

  • The result of killing; that which has been killed. 

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