remains, n.pl.
1 what remains after other parts have been removed or used etc.
2 relics of antiquity, esp. of buildings (Roman remains).
3 a person's body after death.
4 an author's (esp. unpublished) works left after death.

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remains

account, afterglow, afterimage, ancient manuscript, annals, antique, antiquity, archaism, artifact, ashes, balance, body, bones, butt, butt end, cadaver, candle ends, carcass, carrion, catalog, cave painting, chaff, chronicle, clay, corpse, corpus delicti, correspondence, crowbait, dead body, dead man, dead person, debris, decedent, detritus, documentation, dry bones, dust, earth, embalmed corpse, end, eolith, fag end, filings, food for worms, fossil, heel, history, holdover, husks, inventory, late lamented, leavings, leftovers, letters, list, memorial, mezzolith, microlith, mortal remains, mummification, mummy, neolith, odds and ends, offscourings, organic remains, orts, paleolith, parings, petrification, petrified forest, petrified wood, petroglyph, pipe roll, plateaulith, rags, record, recording, refuse, register, registry, relic, relics, reliquiae, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, residuum, rest, roach, roll, rolls, roster, rota, rubbish, ruin, ruins, rump, sawdust, scourings, scraps, scroll, shadow, shavings, skeleton, stiff, straw, stubble, stump, survival, sweepings, table, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, token, trace, vestige, waste

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remains

Remainder

N remainder, residue, remains, remanent, remnant, rest, relic, leavings, heeltap, odds and ends, cheesepairings, candle ends, orts, residuum, dregs, refuse, stubble, result, educt, fag-end, ruins, wreck, skeleton, stump, alluvium, surplus, overplus, excess, balance, complement, superplus, surplusage, superfluity, survival, survivance, remaining, left, left behind left over, residual, residuary, over, odd, unconsumed, sedimentary, surviving, net, exceeding, over and above, outlying, outstanding, cast off, superfluous.

Corpse

N corpse, corse, carcass, cadaver, bones, skeleton, dry bones, defunct, relics, reliquiae, remains, mortal remains, dust, ashes, earth, clay, mummy, carrion, food for worms, food for fishes, tenement of clay this mortal coil, shade, ghost, manes, organic remains, fossils, cadaverous, corpse-like, unburied, sapromyiophyllous.

Record

N record, trace, vestige, relic, remains, scar, cicatrix, footstep, footmark, footprint, pug, track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste, monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement, obelisk, pillar, column, monolith, memorial, memento, testimonial, medal, commemoration, record, note, minute, register, registry, roll, cartulary, diptych, Domesday book, catalogue raisonne, entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket, notch, muniment, deed, document, deposition, proces verbal, affidavit, certificate, notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book, portfolio, pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings, gazette, gazetteer, newspaper, daily, magazine, almanac, almanack, calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger, cashbook, petty cashbook, professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article, archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book, statistics, compte rendu, Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of, Hansard's Debates, chronicle, annals, legend, history, biography, Congressional Records, registration, registry, enrollment, inrollment, tabulation, entry, booking, signature, recorder, journalism, recording, tape recording, videotape, compact disk, floppy disk, diskette, hard disk, Winchester disk, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, on record, exegi monumentum aere perennium, read their history in a nation's eyes, records that defy the tooth of time.

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