indulge vs refuse

indulge

verb
  • To give way to (a habit or temptation); to not oppose or restrain. 

  • To grant an extension to the deadline of a payment. 

  • To satisfy the wishes or whims of. 

  • To grant as by favour; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request. 

  • To yield to a temptation or desire. 

refuse

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. 

adj
  • Discarded, rejected. 

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

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