spend vs struggle

spend

verb
  • To break ground; to continue working. 

  • To waste or wear away; to be consumed. 

  • To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon. 

  • To exhaust, to wear out. 

  • To be diffused; to spread. 

  • To pay out (money). 

  • To consume, to use up (time). 

noun
  • Discharged semen. 

  • Expenditures; money or pocket money. 

  • Vaginal discharge. 

  • Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure. 

struggle

verb
  • To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend. 

  • To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body. 

noun
  • A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task. 

  • Strife, contention, great effort. 

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