Remains
English
Noun
Remains (plural only; not used in singular form)
- What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
- A relic of an ancient building or other structure.
- All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
Verb
remains
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of remain.
Adjectives for Remains
mangled; undemolished; mutilated; honored; numerous; jagged; august; fossilized; dreary; lifeless; insensible; imperishable; charred; mortal; architectural; heterogeneous; comic; disinterred; dingy; scattered; petrified; colorless; archaeological.
Verbs for Remains
cart away—; conceal—; consign—to; cremate—; disinter—; dispose of—; dissect—; embalm—; entomb—; exhume—; expose—; honor—; inter—; mummify—; rescue—; ship—; trace—.
Thesaurus
account, afterglow, afterimage, ancient manuscript, annals, antique, antiquity, archaism, artifact, ashes, balance, body, bones, butt, butt end, cadaver, candle ends, carcass, carrion, catalog, cave painting, chaff, chronicle, clay, corpse, corpus delicti, correspondence, crowbait, dead body, dead man, dead person, debris, decedent, detritus, documentation, dry bones, dust, earth, embalmed corpse, end, eolith, fag end, filings, food for worms, fossil, heel, history, holdover, husks, inventory, late lamented, leavings, leftovers, letters, list, memorial, mezzolith, microlith, mortal remains, mummification, mummy, neolith, odds and ends, offscourings, organic remains, orts, paleolith, parings, petrification, petrified forest, petrified wood, petroglyph, pipe roll, plateaulith, rags, record, recording, refuse, register, registry, relic, relics, reliquiae, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, residuum, rest, roach, roll, rolls, roster, rota, rubbish, ruin, ruins, rump, sawdust, scourings, scraps, scroll, shadow, shavings, skeleton, stiff, straw, stubble, stump, survival, sweepings, table, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, token, trace, vestige, waste
