dispel vs strew

dispel

verb
  • To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering. 

  • To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified. 

noun
  • An act or instance of dispelling. 

strew

verb
  • To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout. 

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