decimate vs shipwreck

decimate

verb
  • To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely. 

  • To replace a high-resolution model with another of lower but acceptable quality. 

  • To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of anything. 

  • To destroy or remove one-tenth of anything. 

shipwreck

verb
  • To wreck a boat through a collision or mishap. 

noun
  • An event where a ship sinks or runs aground. 

  • A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy. 

  • destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss 

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