remains
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Noun[edit]
remains pl (plural only)
- What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
- They buried the remains of their longtime friend in the town cemetery.
- The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
- Historical or archaeological relics.
- The extant writings of a deceased person.
- To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.
- All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
- He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.
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Translations[edit]
what is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse
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relic of an ancient building or other structure
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all that is left of the stock of some things; remnants
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remains — see wreck
Noun[edit]
remains
Verb[edit]
remains
- third-person singular simple present indicative of remain
- We'll go ahead, while she remains here.
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