remains

remains

noun plural

Definition of REMAINS

1

the portion or bits of something left over or behind after it has been destroyed <the remains of the house ripped apart by the tornado littered the block for weeks afterward>

Synonyms ashes, debris, detritus, flotsam, residue, rubble, ruins, wreck, wreckage

Related Words jetsam, leavings, remnant; chaff, deadwood, dross, dust, garbage, junk, litter, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, trash, waste

2

a dead body <archaeologists discovered the remains of an Incan woman and carefully excavated her burial site, which promised to yield important clues about her status>

Synonyms bones, cadaver, carcass, corpus, corse [archaic], relics, remains, stiff

Related Words mummy; carnage, carrion; ashes; deceased, decedent

3

a remaining group or portion <gathered up the remains of the buffet and delivered them to a local homeless shelter>

Synonyms balance, leavings, leftovers, odds and ends, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest

Related Words fragment, scrap, vestige; butt, oddment, scraping(s), stub, stump; excess, fat, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus

Near Antonyms body, bulk, main, mass, most, weight