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/ɹɪˈmeɪnz/ · noun
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.
To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.
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.
We'll go ahead, while she remains here.
Use remains when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Remains means The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse..
Common synonyms include stiff, cadaver, corpse, clay.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They buried the remains of their longtime friend in the town cemetery.
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