close one's eyes vs pretermit

close one's eyes

verb
  • To ignore something. 

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

  • To sleep. 

pretermit

verb
  • To intentionally disregard (something), to ignore; to neglect or omit. 

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