hurt vs step on

hurt

verb
  • To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede. 

  • To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury. 

  • To be painful. 

  • To cause (somebody) emotional pain. 

noun
  • A roundel azure (blue circular spot). 

  • A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions. 

  • A husk. 

  • An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. 

adj
  • Wounded, physically injured. 

  • Pained. 

step on

verb
  • to adulterate a drug for the purpose of increasing its bulk, and therefore its profit; to dilute, cut. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, on. 

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