eviscerate vs prostrate

eviscerate

verb
  • To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless. 

  • To remove a bodily organ or its contents. 

  • To disembowel, to remove the viscera. 

  • To elicit the essence of. 

  • To protrude through a surgical incision. 

prostrate

verb
  • To overcome or overpower. 

  • To throw oneself down in submission. 

  • To lie flat or face-down. 

  • To cause to lie down, to flatten. 

adj
  • Lying flat, face-down. 

  • Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease. 

  • Trailing on the ground; procumbent. 

  • Emotionally devastated. 

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