remains
Meaning
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- The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
- Historical or archaeological relics.
- The extant writings of a deceased person.
- All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
Concepts
remains
corpse
dead body
cadaver
carcass
body
ruins
stiff
leftovers
remnant
residue
remainder
clay
wreckage
remnants
leavings
scraps
debris
rubble
rest
leftover
ruin
traces
vestiges
wreck
trace
scrap
relics
balance
fossil
relic
relict
bones
remainders
dead person
deceased
remain
left over
veteran
ashes of deceased
surplus
dregs
memory
droppings
dung
garbage
refuse
rubbish
trash
waste
salvage
waste material
waste paper
reliquiae
defeated troops
pickings
crock
odds and ends
remanent
residual
survival
hulk
fag end
mark
scar
sign
track
excess
antiques
vestige
ashes
Aas
carcase
legacy
rags
left
overplus
superfluous
Frequency
Hyphenated as
re‧mains
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɹɪˈmeɪnz/
New
remain
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- That which is left; relic; remainder.
- That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
- Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works.
- (obsolete) State of remaining; stay.
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