raze vs take down

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. 

take down

verb
  • To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person). 

  • To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken. 

  • To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding. 

  • To remove something from a website. 

  • To arrest someone or to place them in detention. 

  • I took down the medicine and soon felt better. 

  • To remove something from a hanging position. 

  • To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue. 

  • To lower an item of clothing without removing it. 

  • If you have a pen, you can take down my phone number. 

  • To swallow. 

  • To reduce. 

  • To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc. 

  • To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed. 

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