biting vs searing

biting

adj
  • Causing a stinging sensation. 

  • Tending to bite. 

  • Cutting or incisive. 

noun
  • A bite-sized snack. 

  • An instance of something being bitten. 

searing

adj
  • having a sensation of intense sudden heat 

  • very hot; blistering or boiling 

  • damning; critical; scathing 

noun
  • cooking food quickly at high temperature 

  • action of the verb to sear 

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