clear away vs peel away

clear away

verb
  • To dispose of, to get rid of, to remove. 

  • To tidy up, to remove mess or obstacles from a place to make it neat. 

  • To prepare some object for use by removing obstacles, untying or unfastening it. 

  • To leave, disappear 

peel away

verb
  • To take away from something else. 

  • To burn out while accelerating and rapidly depart; to peel off, peel out. 

  • To become separate through peeling. 

  • To separate off from the main body; to move off to one side (as in troop movements on a parade ground or in an organized retreat, or columns in a procession). 

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