douse vs steeping

douse

noun
  • A sudden plunging into water. 

  • A blow or strike, especially to the face. 

verb
  • To put out; to extinguish. 

  • To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly 

  • To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. 

  • To strike, beat, or thrash. 

  • To fall suddenly into water. 

steeping

noun
  • An instance of something being steeped; a wetting. 

  • A 13th-century coin circulated in Ireland as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under King Edward I. 

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