hitting vs whacking

hitting

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

  • The batter's hitting improved with practice. 

whacking

noun
  • A beating. 

adj
  • Exceptionally large; whopping (often followed by an adjective such as great or big). 

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