reinforce vs take away

reinforce

verb
  • To encourage (a behavior or idea) through repeated stimulus. 

  • To strengthen, especially by addition or augmentation. 

  • To emphasize or review. 

take away

verb
  • To leave a memory or impression in one's mind that you think about later. 

  • To subtract or diminish something. 

  • To remove something and put it in a different place. 

  • To make someone leave a place and go somewhere else. Usually not with the person's consent. 

  • To remove a person, usually a family member or other close friend or acquaintance, by kidnapping or killing the person. 

  • To prevent, or limit, someone from being somewhere, or from doing something. 

  • To remove something, either material or abstract, so that a person no longer has it. 

prep
  • minus 

noun
  • Actions of subtraction or subtracting exercises. 

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