import vs refuse

import

noun
  • Significance, importance. 

  • The practice of importing. 

  • Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade. 

  • A foreigner playing in a sports league. 

verb
  • To be incumbent on (someone to do something). 

  • To mean, signify. 

  • To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence. 

  • To load a file into a software application from another version or system. 

  • To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade. 

  • To be important or crucial to (that something happen). 

  • To be of importance to (someone or something). 

refuse

adj
  • Discarded, rejected. 

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

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 import and refuse occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )