dead-and-alive vs exanimate

dead-and-alive

adj

  • Synonym of dead-alive 

exanimate

adj

  • Lifeless, not or no longer living, dead. 

  • Spiritless, dispirited, disheartened, not lively. 

How often have the words dead-and-alive and exanimate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )