arid vs suffocating

arid

adj
  • Devoid of value. 

  • Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually. 

  • Very dry. 

suffocating

noun
  • suffocation 

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