animate vs revive

animate

verb
  • To give spirit or vigour to; to stimulate or enliven; to inspirit. 

  • To impart motion or the appearance of motion to. 

adj
  • That which lives. 

  • Possessing the quality or ability of motion. 

  • Dynamic, energetic. 

  • having a referent that is considered alive (this generally includes humans and animals, often also gods, plants, etc.) 

  • Inflected to agree with an animate noun or pronoun. 

revive

verb
  • To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate; to make lively again. 

  • To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression. 

  • To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension. 

  • To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. 

  • To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state 

  • To return to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew, or to prevent from dying. 

  • To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. 

  • To recover its natural or metallic state (e.g. a metal) 

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