crash vs topple

crash

verb
  • To hit or strike with force 

  • To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight. 

  • To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion. 

  • To give, as a favor. 

  • To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it. 

  • To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently. 

  • To terminate extraordinarily. 

  • To cause to terminate extraordinarily. 

  • To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated. 

  • To make a sudden loud noise. 

  • To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else. 

  • To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate. 

noun
  • A type of rough linen. 

  • A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals. 

  • A group of rhinoceroses. 

  • An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident. 

  • A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures). 

  • A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction. 

  • A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable. 

  • A comedown from a drug. 

adj
  • Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu. 

topple

verb
  • To push or throw over 

  • To overturn 

  • To overthrow something. 

  • To totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so. 

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