choose vs slay

choose

verb
  • To decide to act in a certain way. 

  • To elect. 

  • To prefer; to wish; to desire. 

  • To pick; to make the choice of; to select. 

conj
  • The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number. 

slay

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

  • To kill; to murder. 

  • 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 choose and slay occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )