bleeding vs smouldering

bleeding

noun
  • Bloodletting. 

  • The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel. 

adj
  • Losing blood 

  • extreme, outright; see also bloody (sense 3). 

adv
  • used as an intensifier: Extremely. 

smouldering

noun
  • The act by which something smoulders; residual heat. 

adj
  • Burning slowly, producing smoke but no flame. 

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