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say it: ri-MOO-vur
remover is a noun meaning "a solvent that removes a substance (usually from a surface)". It is pronounced /ɹɪˈmuvɚ/ — ri-MOO-vur. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a solvent that removes a substance (usually from a surface)
“paint remover”
“rust remover”
“hair remover”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for remover come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.