scorching vs stewing

scorching

noun
  • The act or result of something being scorched. 

adj
  • very high. 

  • Very hot. 

  • Bitterly sarcastic; scathing; withering. 

stewing

noun
  • The act by which something is stewed. 

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