give up vs spurn

give up

verb
  • To abandon (someone or something) 

  • To admit defeat, capitulate 

  • Become fully taken over by a certain quality, activity, trait, &c. 

  • To relinquish (something) 

  • To execute a trade on behalf of another broker. 

  • To stop or quit (an activity, etc.) 

  • To surrender (someone or something) 

  • To lose hope concerning (someone or something) 

spurn

verb
  • To reject something by pushing it away with the foot. 

  • To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity) 

  • To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn. 

noun
  • An act of spurning; a scornful rejection. 

  • A kick; a blow with the foot. 

  • A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass. 

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