tan vs thrash

tan

verb
  • To spank or beat. 

  • To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid. To work as a tanner. 

  • To kill by gun, to shoot. 

  • To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun. 

noun
  • Synonym of picul, particularly in Cantonese contexts. 

  • A yellowish-brown colour. 

  • A twig or small switch. 

  • A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources. 

  • An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh 

  • The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained. 

adj
  • Yellowish-brown. 

  • Having dark skin as a result of exposure to the sun or an artificial process intended to mimic this effect. 

num
  • The second cardinal number two, formerly used in Celtic areas, especially Cumbria and parts of Yorkshire, for counting sheep, and stitches in knitting. 

thrash

verb
  • To thresh. 

  • 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. 

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

  • thrash metal 

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