destroy vs pay the penalty

destroy

verb
  • To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin. 

  • To sing a song poorly. 

  • To put down or euthanize. 

  • To remove data. 

  • To exhaust duly and thus recreate or build up. 

  • To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way. 

  • To damage beyond use or repair. 

  • To defeat soundly. 

  • To neutralize, undo a property or condition. 

pay the penalty

verb
  • To incur negative consequences of one's deeds; to suffer as a result of some choice. 

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