depress vs slay

depress

verb
  • To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.). 

  • To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy. 

  • To make depressed, sad or bored. 

  • To press down. 

  • To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree. 

slay

verb
  • To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest). 

  • To kill; to murder. 

  • To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something. 

  • To have sex with. 

  • To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter. 

  • To eradicate or stamp out. 

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