extinguish vs set afire

extinguish

verb
  • To put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench. 

  • To obscure or eclipse something. 

  • To hunt down (a species) to extinction. 

  • To bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex. 

  • To destroy or abolish something. 

  • To die out. 

  • To kill. 

set afire

verb
  • Synonym of set on fire 

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