remains
noun
1. any object that is left unused or still extant
- I threw out the remains of my dinner
Definition categories: object
2. a relic that has been excavated from the soil
Definition categories: object, relic, remains
3. the dead body of a human being
Similar word(s): cadaver, clay, corpse, stiff
Definition categories: body
Sentences with remains as a noun:
- They buried the remains of their longtime friend in the town cemetery.
- The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
- To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.
- He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.
verb
1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of remain
- We'll go ahead, while she remains here.