come to life vs destroy

come to life

verb
  • to bring back to life; revitalize, revive, resurrect 

  • to start to become energetic. 

  • to appear as if alive 

  • to become alive; to be brought into existence 

destroy

verb
  • To sing a song poorly. 

  • To put down or euthanize. 

  • To remove data. 

  • To exhaust duly and thus recreate or build up. 

  • To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way. 

  • To damage beyond use or repair. 

  • To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin. 

  • To defeat soundly. 

  • To neutralize, undo a property or condition. 

How often have the words come to life and destroy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )