hurt vs promote

hurt

verb
  • To cause (somebody) emotional pain. 

  • To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury. 

  • To be painful. 

  • To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede. 

adj
  • Wounded, physically injured. 

  • Pained. 

noun
  • A roundel azure (blue circular spot). 

  • A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions. 

  • A husk. 

  • An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. 

promote

verb
  • To encourage, urge or incite. 

  • To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure. 

  • To elevate to a higher league. 

  • To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank. 

  • To move on to a subsequent stage of education. 

  • To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity. 

  • To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank. 

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