animate vs sex up

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. 

sex up

verb
  • To arouse somebody sexually 

  • To enhance in terms of fashionable appeal. 

  • To sensationalize. 

  • To make more sexually attractive. 

  • To take part in sexual acts with. 

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