paste vs thrash

paste

verb
  • To defeat decisively or by a large margin. 

  • To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else. 

  • To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste. 

  • To strike or beat someone or something. 

noun
  • One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry. 

  • A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid 

  • The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded. 

  • A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass. 

  • One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste. 

  • One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc. 

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 paste and thrash occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )