blame vs write off

blame

verb
  • To assert the cause of some bad event. 

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

  • 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. 

write off

verb
  • To treat as a write-off, a total loss, especially something damaged beyond economic repair. 

  • To record (an expenditure) as an expense. 

  • To remove a portion of a debt or an amount of an account owed, counting it as a loss (as a gesture of goodwill for example). 

  • To reduce the book value of (an asset) to zero. 

  • To record a notional expense such as amortization or depreciation. 

  • To assign a low value to (something). 

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