remains

Noun

• any object that is left unused or still extant
  • "I threw out the remains of my dinner"
• the dead body of a human being
• 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.
• plural of remain

Verb

• stay the same; remain in a certain state
• continue in a place, position, or situation
• be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.
  • "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger"
  • "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"
• stay behind
• third-person singular simple present indicative of remain

Examples

• He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.
• The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
• They buried the remains of their longtime friend in the town cemetery.
• To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.
• We'll go ahead, while she remains here.

Synonyms

cadaver, clay, continue, corpse, persist, remain, rest, stay, stay on, stiff

Antonyms

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