drown vs overswell

drown

verb
  • To inundate, submerge, overwhelm. 

  • To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. 

  • To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. 

  • To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. 

  • To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items. 

overswell

verb
  • To swell or rise above (something, especially the rim of a container, the sides of something hollow, etc.). 

  • To cause (something) to be too swollen or large; to become too swollen or large. 

noun
  • An excessive or sudden increase or flood (of something). 

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