destruction vs killing

destruction

noun
  • The act of destroying. 

  • The results of a destructive event. 

killing

noun
  • An instance of someone being killed. 

  • A large amount of money. 

adj
  • That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny. 

  • That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal. 

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