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
   - cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay

1. Stay the same; remain in a certain state
   "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"
   - stay, rest 
2. Continue in a place, position, or situation
   "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"
   - stay, stay on, continue 
3. Be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.
   "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger"; "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war" 
4. Stay behind
   "The hostility remained long after they made up"
   - persist, stay

See also: remainder, remnant

Type of: be, body, dead body, object, physical object

Encyclopedia: Remains

• sea moss
• sea mouse
• sea nymph
• Sea of Azof
• Sea of Azoff
• Sea of Azov
• Sea of Cortes
• Sea of Japan
• Sea of Marmara
• Sea of Marmora
• Sea of Okhotsk
• sea onion
• sea otter
• sea pea
• sea pen
• sea pink
• sea poacher
• sea poker
• sea poppy
• sea power
• sea raven
• sea robber
• sea room
• sea rover
• sea salt