stench vs stink

stench

noun
  • a strong foul smell; a stink. 

  • A foul quality. 

verb
  • To stanch. 

stink

noun
  • A strong bad smell. 

  • A complaint or objection. 

adj
  • Bad; inferior; worthless. 

  • Bad-smelling, stinky. 

verb
  • To be greatly inferior; to perform badly. 

  • To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin. 

  • To cause to stink; to affect by a stink. 

  • To have a strong bad smell. 

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