deluge vs trickle

deluge

verb
  • To flood with water. 

  • To overwhelm. 

noun
  • A great flood or rain. 

  • An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction. 

  • A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire. 

trickle

verb
  • to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously. 

  • to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously. 

  • To move or roll slowly. 

noun
  • A very thin river. 

  • A very thin flow; the act of trickling. 

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