Word Meaning

remains definition and meaning

v. i. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
v. i. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
v. t. To await; to be left to.
n. State of remaining; stay.
n. That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
n. That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
n. The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's

Crossword clues for remains

- Continue to be; stay
- Endure or survive
- Hold over
- Marine forced to stay
- Refuse to leave
- Stay
- Stay in place
- Wait
- Stays
- still is