harm vs mayhem

harm

noun
  • physical injury; hurt; damage 

  • detriment; misfortune. 

  • That which causes injury, damage, or loss. 

  • emotional or figurative hurt 

verb
  • To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something. 

mayhem

noun
  • Infliction of violent injury on a person or thing. 

  • The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his limbs which are necessary for defense or protection. 

  • The crime of damaging things or harming people on purpose. 

  • A state or situation of great confusion, disorder, trouble or destruction; chaos. 

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