remove vs stepping

remove

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

  • Distance in time or space; interval. 

  • (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. 

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

  • To murder. 

  • To dismiss or discharge from office. 

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

  • To dismiss a batsman. 

  • To delete. 

stepping

noun
  • The act of taking a step. 

  • A specific iteration of a model of central processing unit, often distinguished by the addition or removal of features compared to earlier examples of the same processor, or the presence, or lack thereof, of specific bugs. 

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