brine vs marinate

brine

verb
  • To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution. 

  • To preserve food in a salt solution. 

noun
  • The sea or ocean; the water of the sea. 

  • Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling. 

marinate

verb
  • To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking. 

  • Of ideas or feelings, to mentally develop over time 

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