put down vs rouse

put down

verb
  • To insult, belittle, or demean. 

  • To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle. 

  • To euthanize (an animal). 

  • To make prices, or taxes, lower. 

  • To pay. 

  • To terminate a call; to hang up. 

  • To give something as a reason for something else. 

  • To add a name to a list. 

  • To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force. 

  • To land. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, down. 

  • To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially. 

  • To write (something). 

  • To place a baby somewhere to sleep. 

  • To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book). 

rouse

verb
  • To tell off; to criticise. 

  • To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy. 

  • To provoke (someone) to action or anger. 

  • To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.). 

  • To cause to start from a covert or lurking place. 

  • To pull by main strength; to haul. 

noun
  • An arousal. 

  • The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse. 

  • A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic. 

  • An official ceremony over drinks. 

  • Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper. 

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