resound vs roar

resound

verb
  • To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly. 

  • Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise. 

  • Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring. 

  • Of a person, their reputation, etc.: to be much lauded or mentioned. 

  • Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo. 

  • Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously. 

  • Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time. 

  • To echo or repeat (a sound). 

  • To sound again. 

  • To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing. 

noun
  • An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding. 

  • The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance. 

roar

verb
  • To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly. 

  • Of animals (especially a lion), to make a loud deep noise. 

  • To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease. 

  • To proceed vigorously. 

  • To be boisterous; to be disorderly. 

  • Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise. 

  • To laugh in a particularly loud manner. 

  • To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion. 

  • to cry 

noun
  • A loud resounding noise. 

  • A show of strength or character. 

  • The deep cry of the bull. 

  • A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open. 

  • The cry of the lion. 

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