destroy vs raze

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. 

raze

verb
  • To destroy; to strike out of existence; to obliterate. 

  • To scrape as if with a razor. 

  • To demolish; to level to the ground. 

noun
  • A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through. 

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