Adjacent Words

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REMA'INS, n. plu.
1. That which is left after a part is separated, taken away or destroyed; as the remains of a city or house demolished.
2. A dead body; a corpse.
The singular, remain, in the like sense, and in the sense of abode, is entirely obsolete.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
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; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay" [syn: cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n.pl. 1 what remains after other parts have been removed or used etc. 2 relics of antiquity, esp. of buildings (Roman remains). 3 a person's body after death. 4 an author's (esp. unpublished) works left after death.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. pl. 1. Relics, remnants, scraps, fragments, leavings, remainder, refuse, odds and ends. 2. Dead body, corpse. 3. Productions, literary works, posthumous works.

Moby 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