irritate vs slay

irritate

verb
  • To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in. 

  • To cause or induce displeasure or irritation. 

  • To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism). 

slay

verb
  • To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter. 

  • To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest). 

  • To kill; to murder. 

  • To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something. 

  • To have sex with. 

  • To eradicate or stamp out. 

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