clobbering vs hitting

clobbering

noun
  • A beating; a thrashing; a thorough defeat. 

adj
  • That clobbers. 

hitting

noun
  • A series of hits or blows directed at a person or object. 

  • The batter's hitting improved with practice. 

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