animate vs roust

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. 

roust

verb
  • to rout out of bed; to rouse 

  • to arrest 

  • To harass, to treat in a rough way. 

  • to drive strongly 

noun
  • A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. 

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