bother vs dismay

bother

verb
  • To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome. 

  • To do something which is of negligible inconvenience. 

  • To annoy, to disturb, to irritate. 

intj
  • A mild expression of annoyance. 

noun
  • Fuss, ado. 

  • Trouble, inconvenience. 

dismay

verb
  • To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy 

  • To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay. 

  • To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. 

noun
  • A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits 

  • Condition fitted to dismay; ruin. 

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