remains
noun/ɹɪˈmeɪnz/
1
The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
- They buried the remains of their longtime friend in the town cemetery.
- The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
2
Historical or archaeological relics.
3
The extant writings of a deceased person.
- To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.
4
All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
- He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.
- Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- cremains, macroremains, microremains, mortal remains