destroy vs get rid of

destroy

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

  • To sing a song poorly. 

  • To put down or euthanize. 

  • To remove data. 

  • To exhaust duly and thus recreate or build up. 

  • To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way. 

  • To damage beyond use or repair. 

  • To defeat soundly. 

  • To neutralize, undo a property or condition. 

get rid of

verb
  • to rid oneself of; dispose (of); to remove; to abolish; to lose 

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