overwhelm vs vaunt

overwhelm

noun
  • The state or condition of being overwhelmed. 

verb
  • To overpower emotionally. 

  • To cause to surround, to cover. 

  • To engulf, surge over and submerge. 

  • To overpower, crush. 

vaunt

noun
  • A boast; an instance of vaunting. 

verb
  • To speak boastfully about. 

  • To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation. 

  • To speak boastfully. 

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