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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. any object that is left unused or still extant;
- Example: "I threw out the remains of my dinner"

2. the dead body of a human being;
- Example: "the cadaver was intended for dissection"
- Example: "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"
- Example: "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"
- Example: "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"
[syn: cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

remains
    n 1: any object that is left unused or still extant; "I threw
         out the remains of my dinner"
    2: the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for
       dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery
       of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff
       in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps
       their clay" [syn: cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay,
       remains]