breaking vs splintering

breaking

noun
  • The act by which something is broken. 

  • A change of a vowel to a diphthong. 

  • A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones. 

  • Breakdancing. 

splintering

noun
  • The process or result of something being splintered. 

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