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

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

Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works.

State of remaining; stay.

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.

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

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

To await; to be left to.

To continue in a state of being.

Example: The light remained red for two full minutes.

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

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

Historical or archaeological relics.

The extant writings of a deceased person.

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

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

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