beating vs throbbing

beating

noun
  • The action by which someone or something is beaten. 

  • A heavy defeat or setback. 

  • The pulsation of the heart. 

throbbing

noun
  • That which throbs. 

adj
  • Beating or pounding strongly. 

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