beating vs trashing

beating

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

  • A heavy defeat or setback. 

  • The pulsation of the heart. 

trashing

noun
  • The act by which something is trashed. 

  • Dumpster diving. 

  • A tradition of throwing food, confetti, etc. over students after their final examinations. 

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