carve up vs excise

carve up

verb
  • To cut into pieces. 

  • To divide or dismember, separate into parts 

excise

verb
  • To cut out; to remove. 

  • To impose an excise tax on something. 

noun
  • A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country). 

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