butcher vs liquidate

butcher

verb
  • To kill brutally. 

  • To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation. 

  • To work as a butcher. 

  • To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market. 

  • To mess up hopelessly; to botch. 

noun
  • A look. 

  • A brutal or indiscriminate killer. 

  • A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). 

liquidate

verb
  • To kill. 

  • To do away with. 

  • To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount. 

  • To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts. 

  • To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem. 

  • To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain. 

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