destroy vs thrash

destroy

verb
  • To defeat soundly. 

  • To sing a song poorly. 

  • To put down or euthanize. 

  • To remove data. 

  • To exhaust duly and thus recreate or build up. 

  • To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way. 

  • To damage beyond use or repair. 

  • To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin. 

  • To neutralize, undo a property or condition. 

thrash

verb
  • To defeat utterly. 

  • To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result. 

  • In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system. 

  • To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour. 

  • To beat mercilessly. 

  • To thresh. 

noun
  • A beat or blow; the sound of beating. 

  • thrash metal 

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