barricade vs stymie

barricade

noun
  • An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark. 

  • A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence 

  • A place of confrontation. 

verb
  • to close or block a road etc., using a barricade 

  • to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port 

stymie

noun
  • An obstacle or obstruction. 

  • A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952). 

verb
  • To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck. 

  • To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie. 

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