tough vs warm

tough

verb
  • To toughen. 

  • To endure. 

adj
  • Harsh or severe. 

  • Difficult or demanding. 

  • Stubborn or persistent; capable of stubbornness or persistence. 

  • Strong and resilient; sturdy. 

  • Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking. 

  • Difficult to cut or chew. 

  • Rugged or physically hardy. 

  • Rowdy or rough. 

intj
  • Used to indicate lack of sympathy 

noun
  • A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully. 

warm

verb
  • To beat or spank. 

  • To scold or abuse verbally. 

  • To become ardent or animated. 

  • To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven. 

  • To become warm, to heat up. 

  • (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly. 

  • To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users. 

  • To make or keep warm. 

noun
  • The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating. 

adj
  • Caring and friendly, of relations to another person. 

  • Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum. 

  • Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot. 

  • Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal. 

  • Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced. 

  • Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness 

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