blot out vs dead-end

blot out

verb
  • To annihilate 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blot, out. 

  • To obscure. 

  • To make indecipherable; to obliterate. 

dead-end

verb
  • To come to a dead-end. 

noun
  • A road with no exit. 

  • A position that offers no hope of progress. 

adj
  • Going nowhere; blocked. 

How often have the words blot out and dead-end occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )