murder vs string up

murder

verb
  • To deliberately kill (a person or persons) without justification, especially with malice aforethought. 

  • To botch or mangle. 

  • To devour, ravish. 

  • To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody). 

  • To defeat decisively. 

noun
  • The act of deliberate killing of a person or other being without moral justification, especially with malice aforethought. 

  • Something terrible to endure. 

  • A group of crows; the collective noun for crows. 

  • The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human. 

  • The crime of deliberately killing a person without moral justification. 

string up

verb
  • To kill (a person) by hanging, especially to lynch. 

  • To concatenate; to link in a line. 

  • To suspend by means of rope, cord or similar material. 

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