 2 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
remains
noun
1: any object that is left unused or still extant; "I threw out
the remains of my dinner"
2: the dead body of a human being [syn: {cadaver}, {corpse}, {stiff},
{clay}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
122 Moby Thesaurus words for "remains":
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
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