decimation vs killing

decimation

noun
  • The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population. 

  • A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling 

  • The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence. 

  • A tithe or the act of tithing. 

  • The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot. 

killing

noun
  • An instance of someone being killed. 

  • A large amount of money. 

adj
  • That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny. 

  • That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal. 

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