nix vs zero out

nix

verb
  • To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel. 

  • To destroy or eradicate. 

intj
  • No! Not at all! 

noun
  • Nothing. 

  • A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie. 

zero out

verb
  • To reduce to zero. 

  • To press or dial 0 in order to escape a voicemail recording facility and speak to an operator. 

  • To cut off funding for (a project). 

  • To fill with zeros, replacing any previous contents. 

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