1. (noun)remains any object that is left unused or still extant
"I threw out the remains of my dinner"
2. (noun)cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains the deadbody of a humanbeing "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"