impact vs reverberate

impact

verb
  • To significantly or strongly influence or affect; to have an impact on. 

  • To stamp or impress onto something. 

  • To collide or strike, the act of impinging. 

  • To compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together. 

noun
  • A significant or strong influence or effect. 

  • A forced impinging. 

  • The striking of one body against another; collision. 

  • The force or energy of a collision of two objects. 

reverberate

verb
  • To have a lasting effect. 

  • To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat. 

  • To ring or sound with many echos. 

  • To rebound or recoil. 

  • To send or force back; to repel from side to side. 

  • To repeatedly return. 

  • To fuse by reverberated heat. 

  • To shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.). 

adj
  • Driven back, as sound; reflected. 

  • reverberant 

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