battering vs tirade

battering

noun

  • A heavy beating. 

  • A large defeat. 

tirade

noun

  • A long, angry or violent speech. 

  • A section of verse concerning a single theme. 

verb

  • To make a long, angry or violent speech, a tirade. 

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