excise vs peel away

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). 

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 excise and peel away occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )