dismiss vs marry

dismiss

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

  • To get a batsman out. 

  • To reject; to refuse to accept. 

  • To order to leave. 

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

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

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

  • To dispel; to rid one’s mind of. 

marry

verb
  • To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. 

  • To enter into marriage with one another. 

  • To take as husband or wife. 

  • To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. 

  • To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place. 

  • To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time. 

  • To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block. 

  • To join or connect. See also marry up. 

  • To unite; to join together into a close union. 

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