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remains

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈmeɪnz/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪnz
  • Hyphenation: re‧mains

Noun

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remains pl (plural only)

  1. The body or any of its matter that are 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.
    • 2026 July 18, Nicholas Muhoro, “Bryce Laspisa Vanished Near Castaic Lake After Spending 13 Hours Parked on a California Highway”, in Skip Boring‎[1], archived from the original on 19 July 2026:
      The other potential scenario is that the injury sustained from the crash left him so disoriented that he sought help, but died from exposure in the hills surrounding the lake. His remains would have been scattered across thousands of acres of bush and ravine.
  2. Historical or archaeological relics.
  4. The extant writings of a deceased person.
    To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.
  5. All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
    He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.
    • 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.

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Noun

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remains

  1. (rare) plural of remain

Verb

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remains

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of remain
    We'll go ahead, while she remains here.

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