ditch vs reject

ditch

verb
  • To discard or abandon. 

  • To dig ditches around. 

  • To dig ditches. 

  • To throw into a ditch. 

  • To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey. 

  • To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water. 

noun
  • A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage. 

  • A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. 

reject

verb
  • To refuse to accept. 

  • To refuse a romantic advance. 

  • To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court. 

noun
  • A rejected takeoff. 

  • A rejected defective product in a production line. 

  • Something that is rejected. 

  • An unpopular person. 

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