inflame vs stoke

inflame

verb
  • To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat. 

  • To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of. 

  • To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed. 

  • To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage. 

  • To exaggerate; to enlarge upon. 

  • To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow. 

stoke

verb
  • To encourage a behavior or emotion. 

  • To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman. 

  • To poke, pierce, thrust. 

  • To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace. 

noun
  • An act of poking, piercing, thrusting 

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