deluge vs overswell

deluge

noun
  • A great flood or rain. 

  • An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction. 

  • A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire. 

verb
  • To flood with water. 

  • To overwhelm. 

overswell

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

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

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

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