liquidate vs wipe away

liquidate

verb
  • To do away with. 

  • To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount. 

  • To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts. 

  • To kill. 

  • To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem. 

  • To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain. 

wipe away

verb
  • To remove or erase with a wiping motion 

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