decimation vs liquidation

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. 

liquidation

noun
  • Murder of dehumanized victims. 

  • The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash. 

  • The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business. 

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