excruciating vs smarting

excruciating

adj
  • Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing 

  • Exceedingly intense; extreme 

smarting

adj
  • Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment. 

  • Painful, sore. 

noun
  • A sensation that smarts or stings. 

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