decimation vs witch-hunt

decimation

noun
  • The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population. 

  • A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling 

  • The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence. 

  • A tithe or the act of tithing. 

  • The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot. 

witch-hunt

noun
  • A public or political campaign or investigation which smears a person or group. 

  • An attempt to find and punish or harass a group of people perceived as a threat, usually on ideological or political grounds. 

  • A search for people believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, typically in order to persecute or punish them. 

verb
  • To perform a witch-hunt. 

How often have the words decimation and witch-hunt occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )