succeed vs thrash

succeed

verb
  • To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to). 

  • To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant. 

  • To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort. 

  • To follow something in sequence or time. 

  • To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general. 

  • To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to. 

  • To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; (often with to). 

  • To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to). 

  • To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title. 

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