dispatch vs murder

dispatch

verb
  • To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently. 

  • To send (a shipment) with promptness. 

  • To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform. 

  • To send (a person) away hastily. 

  • To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to). 

  • To rid; to free. 

  • To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer. 

  • To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report. 

noun
  • A mission by an emergency response service, typically involving attending to an emergency in the field. 

  • A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc. 

  • The act of doing something quickly. 

  • The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table. 

murder

verb
  • To deliberately kill (a person or persons) without justification, especially with malice aforethought. 

  • To botch or mangle. 

  • To devour, ravish. 

  • To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody). 

  • To defeat decisively. 

noun
  • The act of deliberate killing of a person or other being without moral justification, especially with malice aforethought. 

  • Something terrible to endure. 

  • A group of crows; the collective noun for crows. 

  • The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human. 

  • The crime of deliberately killing a person without moral justification. 

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