cohabit vs merge

cohabit

verb
  • To coexist in common environs with. 

  • To live together with someone else, especially in a romantic and sexual relationship but without being married. 

merge

verb
  • To combine into a whole. 

  • To blend gradually into something else. 

noun
  • The joining together of multiple sources. 

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