Usually means: What is left after loss.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. remains: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. remains: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. remains: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. remains: Collins English Dictionary
  5. remains: Vocabulary.com
  6. Remains, remains: Wordnik
  7. remains: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. remains: Wiktionary
  9. remains: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. remains: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. remains: Dictionary.com
  12. remains: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Remains (Alkaline Trio album), Remains (Annihilator album), Remains (The Only Ones album), Remains (comics), Remains (film), Remains (song), Remains, The Remains (album), The Remains (film), The Remains: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. remains: Rhymezone
  15. remains: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. remains: Free Dictionary
  17. remains: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. remains: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. remains: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Remains (album), remains: Legal dictionary
  2. Death and Funeral Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. remains: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. remains: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
▸ noun:  Historical or archaeological relics.
▸ noun:  The extant writings of a deceased person.
▸ noun:  All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.

Similar:
cadaver, stiff, corpse, clay, still, become, stays, appear, remain, stands, more...

Opposite:
vanishes, departs, disappears, dissolves, evaporates

Types:
fossil, remains of building, remains of ship, remains of person, remains of animal, remains of plant, more...

Phrases:
fact remains, human remains, mortal remains, archeological remains, human remains pouch, more...

Adjectives:
organic, archaeological, skeletal, mortal, human, few, architectural, faunal, little, charred, literary

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Similar:
cadaver, stiff, corpse, clay, still, become, stays, appear, remain, stands, more...

Opposite:
vanishes, departs, disappears, dissolves, evaporates

Types:
fossil, remains of building, remains of ship, remains of person, remains of animal, remains of plant, more...

Phrases:
fact remains, human remains, mortal remains, archeological remains, human remains pouch, it remains to be seen, remains to be seen, removal of remains, the fact remains, What Remains of Edith Finch, more...

Adjectives:
organic, archaeological, skeletal, mortal, human, few, architectural, faunal, little, charred, literary

Colors:
    ash gray,     charcoal,     sepia,     slate gray,     taupe, more...



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