remains

noun

1. (plural, plural-only)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. (plural, plural-only)Historical or archaeological relics.
3. (plural, plural-only)The extant writings of a deceased person.

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

4. (plural, plural-only)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.”

5. (form-of, plural, rare)plural of remain

verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of remain

   “We'll go ahead, while she remains here.”