rescue vs wipe out

rescue

verb
  • To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin. 

  • To recover forcibly. 

  • To achieve something positive under difficult conditions. 

  • To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint. 

  • To save from any violence, danger or evil. 

  • To deliver by arms, notably from a siege. 

noun
  • A rescuee. 

  • A liberation, freeing. 

  • An act or episode of rescuing, saving. 

  • The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril 

  • A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded 

wipe out

verb
  • To do away with; to cause to disappear. 

  • To crash; to fall over (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding, etc.). 

  • To physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.). 

  • To destroy (especially, a large number of people or things); to obliterate. 

  • To knock (a surfer) off their board. 

  • To fall off one's surfboard. 

  • To exhaust; to tire out. 

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