confide vs refuse

confide

verb
  • To take (someone) into one's confidence, to speak in secret with. ( + in) 

  • To say (something) in confidence. 

refuse

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

adj
  • Discarded, rejected. 

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

  • To melt again. 

  • To decline (a request or demand). 

  • 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. 

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