destroyed vs in tatters

destroyed

adj
  • (particularly of a child) soiled, muddied, especially as a result of a fall or spill. 

in tatters

phrase
  • Badly torn in many places; in shreds. 

  • Ruined, destroyed, wrecked. 

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