remains

4 definitions • 5 examples

pieces or parts of something that continue to exist when most of it has been used, destroyed, or taken away:

The remains of lunch were still on the table.

We visited the remains of a 12th century monastery.

someone's dead body or the remaining parts of it:

50 years after he died, his remains were returned to his homeland.

Human remains were found in the woods.

the things or parts of something that continue to exist when other parts or things no longer do:

Rescue workers searched the remains of the house.

A person’s remains are that person’s dead body.