peel away vs remove

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). 

remove

verb
  • To move something or someone from one place to another, especially to take away. 

  • To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.). 

  • To murder. 

  • To dismiss or discharge from office. 

  • To dismiss a batsman. 

  • To delete. 

noun
  • Distance in time or space; interval. 

  • A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove") 

  • (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last 

  • Emotional distance or indifference. 

  • The act of resetting a horse's shoe. 

  • The act of removing something. 

  • A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course. 

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