destroy vs uproot

destroy

verb
  • To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin. 

  • To sing a song poorly. 

  • To put down or euthanize. 

  • To remove data. 

  • To exhaust duly and thus recreate or build up. 

  • To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way. 

  • To damage beyond use or repair. 

  • To defeat soundly. 

  • To neutralize, undo a property or condition. 

uproot

verb
  • To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate. 

  • To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly. 

  • Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere). 

  • To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up. 

  • Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout. 

noun
  • The act of uprooting something. 

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