open up vs refuse

open up

verb
  • To widen. 

  • Synonym of cheat out (“to face or turn toward the audience more than would be natural”) 

  • To begin running, driving, travelling, etc., at maximum speed. 

  • To commence firing weapons. 

  • To rain. 

  • To open. 

  • To reveal oneself; to share personal information about oneself; to become communicative. 

refuse

verb
  • To melt again. 

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

  • 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. 

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

adj
  • Discarded, rejected. 

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