impact vs smash

impact

noun
  • The striking of one body against another; collision. 

  • A significant or strong influence or effect. 

  • A forced impinging. 

  • The force or energy of a collision of two objects. 

verb
  • To stamp or impress onto something. 

  • To collide or strike, the act of impinging. 

  • To significantly or strongly influence or affect; to have an impact on. 

  • To compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together. 

smash

noun
  • The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together. 

  • Airspeed; dynamic pressure. 

  • A traffic collision. 

  • Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc). 

  • A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink. 

  • A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward. 

verb
  • To ruin completely and suddenly. 

  • To break (something brittle) violently. 

  • To be destroyed by being smashed. 

  • To deform through continuous pressure. 

  • To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over. 

  • To have sexual intercourse with. 

  • To hit extremely hard. 

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