rescue vs slay

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 

slay

verb
  • To eradicate or stamp out. 

  • 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. 

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