battering vs wear and tear

battering

noun
  • A large defeat. 

  • A heavy beating. 

wear and tear

noun
  • Damage or depreciation resulting from ordinary use (normally as something excluded from a guarantee or warranty of quality, or as justifying a write-down in a set of accounts). 

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