bludgeon vs pressure

bludgeon

verb
  • To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon. 

  • To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club. 

noun
  • A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end. 

pressure

verb
  • To encourage or heavily exert force or influence. 

noun
  • A pressing; a force applied to a surface. 

  • Distress. 

  • The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area. 

  • A contrasting force or impulse of any kind 

  • Urgency 

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