calm down vs placate

calm down

verb
  • To become less excited, intense, or angry. 

  • To cause to become less excited, intense, or angry. 

placate

verb
  • To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate. 

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