acquit vs blame

acquit

verb
  • To declare or find innocent or not guilty. 

  • Followed by of (and formerly by from): to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge. 

  • To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil. 

  • To bear or conduct oneself; to perform one's part. 

  • To clear oneself. 

blame

verb
  • To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative). 

  • To censure (someone or something); to criticize. 

  • To assert the cause of some bad event. 

noun
  • Culpability for something negative or undesirable. 

  • A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code. 

  • Censure. 

  • Responsibility for something meriting censure. 

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