blame vs salvo

blame

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. 

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). 

salvo

noun
  • An exception; a reservation; an excuse. 

  • A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon. 

  • A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley. 

  • Any volley, as in an argument or debate. 

  • The combined cheers of a crowd. 

verb
  • To discharge weapons in a salvo. 

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