remove vs tear up

remove

verb
  • To murder. 

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

  • 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. 

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. 

tear up

verb
  • To brutally assault. 

  • To succeed dramatically in (an area of endeavor) or against. 

  • To damage. 

  • To wrench out of the ground. 

  • To have intense penetrative sex with. 

  • To cancel or annul, or to cause the cancellation or annulment of (e.g. an agreement or contract). 

  • To tear into pieces. 

  • To start shedding tears. 

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