noun

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(chiefly in the plural) That which is left; relic; remainder.

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(in the plural) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.

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Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works.

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State of remaining; stay.

verb

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To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.

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To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.

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There was no food in the house, so I had to remain hungry.

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To await; to be left to.

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To continue in a state of being.

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The light remained red for two full minutes.

noun

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What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.

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The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.

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Historical or archaeological relics.

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The extant writings of a deceased person.

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To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.

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All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.

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He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.

Examples of remains in a Sentence

It was the remains of another large building.

That's all that remains of the command center on the Peak.

The big question remains, who would have access to all that theater paraphernalia?

Now, a state park, the mountain remains a popular destination for one day hikers.

More importantly, Dean now realized that the only real evidence that the remains from the mine were human had disappeared.

The gem can be destroyed to release its magic, but by doing so, you lose all that remains of your mother and me.

He fished around in the remains of Darian and yanked free something that glimmered silver in the early morning light.

This world is all that remains of him.

It now remains my pleasant task to direct and mould the beautiful intelligence that is beginning to stir in the child-soul.

Nothing. Maybe turn it over to some public trust so it remains unspoiled.

It remains as I remember from years gone by.

Several more joined him to clear out debris and the remains of a building.

No one found the remains for forty years!

I sent out a party to search for our father's remains so we can have a safe place for the Council and Immortals again.

The Watcher continued to ignore him. "Have you never wondered what remains, since regaining your mind?"

Cobalt sesquioxide, Co 2 0 3, remains as a dark-brown powder when cobalt nitrate is gently heated.

That remains for her to do at another time.

Balashev remembered these words, "So long as a single armed foe remains on Russian soil," but some complex feeling restrained him.

Our personal security remains constantly on high alert.

The remains of what was now universally presumed to be Josh Mulligan rested in an unnamed southern California landfill.

Dean explained that the miniature remains belonged to a very bad man.

The oldest Egyptian or Hindoo philosopher raised a corner of the veil from the statue of the divinity; and still the trembling robe remains raised, and I gaze upon as fresh a glory as he did, since it was I in him that was then so bold, and it is he in me that now reviews the vision.

Why is it that a bucket of water soon becomes putrid, but frozen remains sweet forever?

The remains of Langeron's and Dokhturov's mingled forces were crowding around the dams and banks of the ponds near the village of Augesd.

Such an unlikely spot for a home site, and yet, the remains of a chimney gave indisputable proof that one had existed at some point.

I can see from my perch a window downstairs in back remains open to catch the lovely spring breeze.

It was as if rescuing these long forgotten remains from oblivion would somehow prove such a resurrection from years of absolute dark and loneliness would make anything possible.

Or, more intriguingly, perhaps one of the auction's bargain foot lockers contained the remains of the actual skeleton!

He explained no cigarettes were found with the remains Fitzgerald brought to Bird Song nor was there any such evidence when the Deans visited the site.

Martha suggested an appropriate burial for the tiny remains she dubbed "Pinkie" and services were conducted in the back garden, next to Mrs. Lincoln's last winter mouse-victim.

Sheet-covered, her remains lay in Dean's office, only feet from where she had lain naked against him so short a time before.

On Castle Hill, in the vicinity, are the remains of an earthwork, said to have been raised by Edward the Elder in 924.

It remains to trace the influence, direct or indirect, of the poet on the novelist.

The light actually emitted laterally is thus the same as would be caused by forces exactly the opposite of these acting on the medium otherwise free from disturbance, and it only remains to see what the effect of such force would be.

Attempts have been made to apply electricity to agriculture on a commercial scale, but the exact measure of success attained remains somewhat doubtful.

On being cut or broken the flesh of a true mushroom remains white or nearly so, the flesh of the coarser horse mushroom changes to buff or sometimes to dark brown.

It was a royal preserve, and remains for the most part an uncultivated waste, but it is also a rich coalfield, and there are mines in every direction.

Among the early Christian remains of the island far and away the most important is the church of St Titus at Gortyna, which perhaps dates from the Constantinian age.

A little later, in Crete, bone-pits seem to have come into use, containing the remains of many burials.

She was covered with dirt – the remains of mud pies I had compelled her to eat, although she had never shown any special liking for them.

But the fact remains that Miss Canby's story was read to me once, and that long after I had forgotten it, it came back to me so naturally that I never suspected that it was the child of another mind.

And the fact remains that she was taught by a method of teaching language to the deaf the essential principles of which are clearly expressed in Miss Sullivan's letters, written while she was discovering the method and putting it successfully into practice.

Cato's half-obliterated cellar-hole still remains, though known to few, being concealed from the traveller by a fringe of pines.

It is frequently covered up by drifts, and, it is said, "sometimes plunges from on wing into the soft snow, where it remains concealed for a day or two."

Pierre threw off his cloak and entered the first room, in which were the remains of supper.

The officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to warm themselves, gathering round the fires throwing into the flames the remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they did not want or could not carry away with them.

I will not make peace as long as a single armed enemy remains in my country!

The actors of 1812 have long since left the stage, their personal interests have vanished leaving no trace, and nothing remains of that time but its historic results.

While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to.

Napoleon enters Moscow after the brilliant victory de la Moskowa; there can be no doubt about the victory for the battlefield remains in the hands of the French.

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