refuse vs traffic

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. 

traffic

verb
  • To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration. 

  • To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods. 

  • To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain. 

noun
  • The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc. in a publication. 

  • Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people. 

  • In CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others. 

  • Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network. 

  • Commodities of the market. 

  • Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof. 

  • Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs. 

adj
  • congested 

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