braise vs smolder

braise

verb
  • To cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan, somewhere between steaming and boiling. 

noun
  • A sauce used for braising. 

  • A dish (usually meat) prepared by braising. 

  • Pagellus bogaraveo, syn. Pagellus centrodontus (sea bream) 

smolder

verb
  • To burn with no flame and little smoke. 

  • To exist in a suppressed or hidden state. 

  • To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion. 

noun
  • The act of smoldering or something that smolders. 

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