scorch vs whoosh

scorch

verb
  • To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire. 

  • To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy 

  • To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively). 

  • To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence. 

  • (To cause) to become scorched or singed 

  • To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it 

noun
  • A slight or surface burn. 

  • Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi. 

  • A discolouration caused by heat. 

whoosh

verb
  • To kill by gun, to shoot. 

  • To pass by quickly and more or less close or away. 

  • To make a breathy sound like a whoosh or extrude with such a sound. 

  • To cause to pass quickly. 

  • To happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point. 

noun
  • A homicide by shooting. 

  • A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed. 

  • A gun. 

intj
  • Imitates anything passing by quickly and more or less close. 

  • Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head). 

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