give up vs peel away

give up

verb
  • To abandon (someone or something) 

  • To admit defeat, capitulate 

  • Become fully taken over by a certain quality, activity, trait, &c. 

  • To relinquish (something) 

  • To execute a trade on behalf of another broker. 

  • To stop or quit (an activity, etc.) 

  • To surrender (someone or something) 

  • To lose hope concerning (someone or something) 

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