searing vs stewing

searing

noun
  • action of the verb to sear 

  • cooking food quickly at high temperature 

adj
  • very hot; blistering or boiling 

  • having a sensation of intense sudden heat 

  • damning; critical; scathing 

stewing

noun
  • The act by which something is stewed. 

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