shut out vs spurn

shut out

verb
  • To refuse to be open and vulnerable toward. 

  • To prevent from scoring; to perform a shutout. 

  • To hide from sight. 

  • To prevent from entering; to block or exclude. 

spurn

verb
  • To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn. 

  • To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity) 

  • To reject something by pushing it away with the foot. 

noun
  • An act of spurning; a scornful rejection. 

  • A kick; a blow with the foot. 

  • A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass. 

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