butcher vs eliminate

butcher

verb
  • To kill brutally. 

  • To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation. 

  • To work as a butcher. 

  • To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market. 

  • To mess up hopelessly; to botch. 

noun
  • A look. 

  • A brutal or indiscriminate killer. 

  • A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). 

eliminate

verb
  • To kill (a person or animal). 

  • To exclude (from investigation or from further competition). 

  • To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to. 

  • To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions. 

  • To excrete (waste products). 

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