castoff vs reject

castoff

noun
  • Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject. 

adj
  • discarded, rejected. 

reject

noun
  • Something that is rejected. 

  • A rejected takeoff. 

  • A rejected defective product in a production line. 

  • An unpopular person. 

verb
  • To refuse a romantic advance. 

  • To refuse to accept. 

  • To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court. 

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