destroy vs eliminate

destroy

verb
  • To remove data. 

  • To sing a song poorly. 

  • To put down or euthanize. 

  • To exhaust duly and thus recreate or build up. 

  • To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way. 

  • To damage beyond use or repair. 

  • To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin. 

  • To defeat soundly. 

  • To neutralize, undo a property or condition. 

eliminate

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

  • To kill (a person or animal). 

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

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

  • To excrete (waste products). 

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