congeal vs harden

congeal

verb
  • To become congealed, solidify. 

  • To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage. 

  • To coagulate, make curdled or semi-solid such as gel or jelly. 

  • To make rigid or immobile. 

harden

verb
  • To strengthen. 

  • To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive. 

  • To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition. 

  • To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure). 

  • To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks. 

  • To unpalatalize or velarize. 

  • To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure). 

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