beleaguer vs hector

beleaguer

verb
  • To vex, harass, or beset. 

  • To besiege; to surround with troops. 

  • To exhaust. 

hector

verb
  • To dominate or intimidate in a blustering way; to bully, to domineer. 

  • To behave like a hector or bully; to bluster, to swagger; to bully. 

noun
  • Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a blusterer, bully. 

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