gassing vs shooting

gassing

noun
  • Poisoning by noxious gas. 

  • boasting; insincere or empty talk 

  • Any similar process of singeing. 

  • The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres. 

  • The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte. 

shooting

noun
  • An instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon. 

  • The sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon. 

  • The act of one who, or that which, shoots. 

  • A sensation of darting pain. 

  • A district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms. 

adj
  • Moving or growing quickly. 

  • Of a pain, sudden and darting. 

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