butcher vs slay

butcher

verb
  • To kill brutally. 

  • To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation. 

  • To work as a butcher. 

  • To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market. 

  • To mess up hopelessly; to botch. 

noun
  • A look. 

  • A brutal or indiscriminate killer. 

  • A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). 

slay

verb
  • To kill; to murder. 

  • To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest). 

  • To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something. 

  • To have sex with. 

  • To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter. 

  • To eradicate or stamp out. 

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