blame vs dismiss

blame

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

  • To assert the cause of some bad event. 

  • 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). 

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. 

dismiss

verb
  • To send or put away, to discard with disregard, contempt or disdain. (sometimes followed by as). 

  • To get a batsman out. 

  • To give someone a red card; to send off. 

  • To reject; to refuse to accept. 

  • To order to leave. 

  • To invalidate; to treat as unworthy of serious consideration. 

  • To discharge; to end the employment or service of. 

  • To dispel; to rid one’s mind of. 

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