protect vs thrash

protect

verb
  • To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to. 

  • To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight. 

thrash

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

  • 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 beat mercilessly. 

  • To thresh. 

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

  • thrash metal 

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