decrepitate vs smash

decrepitate

verb
  • Of salts and minerals, to crackle when heated, indicating a sudden breakdown of their particles. 

  • To roast (a salt or mineral) until it stops crackling in the fire. 

smash

verb
  • To break (something brittle) violently. 

  • To ruin completely and suddenly. 

  • To be destroyed by being smashed. 

  • To deform through continuous pressure. 

  • To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over. 

  • To have sexual intercourse with. 

  • To hit extremely hard. 

noun
  • Airspeed; dynamic pressure. 

  • A traffic collision. 

  • Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc). 

  • The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together. 

  • A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink. 

  • A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward. 

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