battered vs beat-up

battered

adj
  • Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered. 

  • Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up. 

  • Coated with batter (noun). 

beat-up

adj
  • Worn out by overuse; in a state of disrepair 

noun
  • An artificially or disingenuously manufactured outcry, usually in the media. 

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