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remainspl. n. the portion or bits of something left over or behind after it has been destroyedthe remains of the house ripped apart by the tornado littered the block for weeks afterward ashes, debris, detritus, flotsam, residue, rubble, ruins, wreck, wreckage jetsam, leavings, remnantchaff, deadwood, dross, dust, garbage, junk, litter, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, trash, waste a dead bodyarchaeologists discovered the remains of an Incan woman and carefully excavated her burial site, which promised to yield important clues about her status bones, cadaver, carcass, corpse, corpus, corse(archaic), relics, stiff mummycarnage, carrionashesdeceased, decedent a remaining group or portiongathered up the remains of the buffet and delivered them to a local homeless shelter balance, leavings, leftovers, odds and ends, remainder, remnant, residue, residuum, rest fragment, scrap, vestigebutt, oddment, scraping(s), stub, stumpexcess, fat, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus body, bulk, main, mass, most, weight remainsverbpresent tense third-person singular of remainto continue to be in a place for a significant amount of timeone of the three bridges known as "the London Bridge," it was moved in the late 1960s to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it remains today abides, dwells, hangs around, stays, sticks around, tarries awaits, hangs on, holds on, waitsdallies, dawdles, lingers, loitersoutstays, overstays bails, bails out, bugs out, buzzes (off), clears off(chiefly British), clears out, cuts out, departs, exits, gets off, goes, goes off, leaves, moves, packs (up or off), peels off, pikes (out or off), pulls out, pushes off, pushes on, quits, shoves (off), takes off, vamooses, walks out absconds, books(slang), decamps, escapes, evacuates, flees, flies, gets out, runs away, scats, scrams, skipsabandons, deserts, forsakes, vacates to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same statethe fact remains: it's still impossible to be in two places at once abides, bides, continues, endures, holds on, holds up, keeps up, lasts, perdures, persists, runs on lingers, stays, sticks around, tarriescarries through, prevails, survives ceases, closes, concludes, desists, dies, discontinues, ends, expires, finishes, lapses, leaves off, passes, quits, stops, terminates, winds up abates, dies (down), ebbs, lets up, moderates, subsides, wanes |