close one's eyes vs elide

close one's eyes

verb
  • To ignore something. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see close, one's, eyes. 

  • To sleep. 

elide

verb
  • To leave out or omit (something). 

  • To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable. 

  • To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between. 

How often have the words close one's eyes and elide occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )