kick around vs refute

kick around

verb
  • To abuse or mistreat; to bully; to be rough with. 

  • To wander loose; to float around; to hang around. 

  • To be discussed informally; to be considered. 

noun
  • An informal game of football, rugby or similar sports. 

refute

verb
  • To deny the truth or correctness of (something). 

  • To prove (something) to be false or incorrect. 

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