blooming vs smouldering

blooming

noun
  • The act by which something blooms. 

  • The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron. 

  • A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture. 

adv
  • Bloody; bleeding; extremely. 

adj
  • Opening in blossoms; flowering. 

  • Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health. 

smouldering

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

adj
  • Burning slowly, producing smoke but no flame. 

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