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Webster 1828 Edition

Noun.

plu.

That which is left after a part is separated, taken away or destroyed; as the remains of a city or house demolished.

A dead body; a corpse.

The singular, remain, in the like sense, and in the sense of abode, is entirely obsolete.

remains pl ‎(plural only)

What is 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.
Historical or archaeological relics.
The extant writings of a deceased person.
To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.‎
All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess:
  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.
He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.‎

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

relic of an ancient building or other structure

all that is left of the stock of some things; remnants

remains

remains

third-person singular simple present indicative form of remain
We'll go ahead, while she remains here.