scathing vs wounding

scathing

adj
  • Harmful or painful; acerbic. 

  • Harshly or bitterly critical; vitriolic. 

wounding

noun
  • An instance of being wounded. 

  • The act of inflicting a wound. 

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