remains
noun [plural] /rɪˈmeɪnz/Definition
B2 pieces or parts of something that continue to exist when most of it has been used, destroyed, or taken away: The remains of lunch were still on the table. We visited the remains of a twelfth-century monastery.Things remaining human/sb's remains formal › someone's dead body or the remaining parts of it: 50 years after he died, his remains were returned to his homeland. Human remains were found in the woods.Death and dying
(Definition of remains noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Also, extra, and in addition
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- Available and accessible
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- Big and quite big
- Enlarging and inflating
- Enormous
- Enough
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- General words for size and amount
- Increasing and intensifying
- Large in number or quantity
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- Maximum and minimum
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- Someone, anyone, no one or everyone
- Something, anything, nothing, and everything
- Things collected in lines or rings
- Too much and unnecessary
- Unavailable and inaccessible
- Unlimited
- Words meaning small pieces and amounts
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Synonyms and related words:
- (and) all the rest idiom
- balance noun (MONEY)
- bastion noun
- deposit noun (LAYER)
- dregs noun
- for the rest idiom
- ground noun (COFFEE)
- hangover noun (CONTINUING)
- leftover noun
- remainder noun (PART LEFT)
- remnant noun
- residual adjective
- residue noun
- rest noun (OTHER PART)
- ruin noun
- rump noun
- throwback noun
- time capsule noun
- vestige noun
- wreckage noun
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