boil vs rave

boil

verb
  • To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid. 

  • To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation. 

  • To feel uncomfortably hot. 

  • To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil. 

  • To begin to turn into a gas, seethe. 

  • To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas. 

  • To be uncomfortably hot. 

  • To cook in boiling water. 

  • To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce. 

noun
  • The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point. 

  • A dish of boiled food, especially seafood. 

  • A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.) 

  • The collective noun for a group of hawks. 

  • A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection. 

rave

verb
  • To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging. 

  • To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on. 

  • To speak or write wildly or incoherently. 

  • To attend a rave (dance party). 

noun
  • An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use. 

  • The genres of electronic dance music usually associated with rave parties. 

  • An enthusiastic review (such as of a play). 

  • One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh. 

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