bring up vs refuse

bring up

verb
  • To stop or interrupt a flow or steady motion. 

  • To mention. 

  • To raise or rear (children). 

  • To vomit. 

  • To uncover, to bring from obscurity; to resurface (e.g. a memory) 

  • To reach a particular score, especially a milestone. 

  • To turn on power or start, as of a machine. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, up: To bring from a lower to a higher position. 

refuse

verb
  • To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy. 

  • To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission. 

  • To melt again. 

  • To decline (a request or demand). 

adj
  • Discarded, rejected. 

noun
  • Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage. 

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