kill vs refresh

kill

verb
  • To use up or to waste. 

  • To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point. 

  • To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt. 

  • To punish severely. 

  • To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay. 

  • To produce intense pain. 

  • To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate. 

  • To put to death; to extinguish the life of. 

  • To exert oneself to an excessive degree. 

  • To exert an overwhelming effect on. 

  • To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate. 

  • To force a company out of business. 

  • To deadmelt. 

  • To render inoperative. 

  • To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy. 

  • To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in. 

  • To cause to assume the value zero. 

  • To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network. 

  • To sexually penetrate in a skillful way. 

  • To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat. 

noun
  • The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally. 

  • Specifically, the death blow. 

  • A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea. 

  • The act of killing. 

  • The result of killing; that which has been killed. 

refresh

verb
  • To renew or revitalize. 

  • To perform the periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of a computer screen, etc. 

  • To become fresh again; to be revitalized. 

  • To cause (a web browser or similar software) to refresh its display. 

  • To reload (a document, especially a webpage) and show any new changes. 

noun
  • The periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of a computer screen, etc. 

  • The update of a display (in a web browser or similar software) to show the latest version of the data. 

  • The process of modernizing something. 

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