flooded vs submerged

flooded

adj
  • Filled with too much fluid. 

  • Filled with water from rain or rivers. 

  • Overwhelmed with too much of something. 

submerged

adj
  • below the surface of a liquid 

  • underwater 

  • hidden 

  • poor, impoverished 

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