remains
/ɹɪˈmeɪnz/ noun B2- The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse. · They buried the remains of their longtime friend in the town cemetery.· The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
- Historical or archaeological relics.
- The extant writings of a deceased person. · To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.
- All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants. · He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.
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“If this paper remains blue, all is well.
“You may depend upon it, madam,” said Miss Bingley, with cold civility, “that Miss Bennet shall receive every possible attention while she remains with us.”
"That process," said I, "starts upon the supposition that when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains however improbable, must be the truth.
“‘Of course, we had the drags at once, and set to work to recover the remains, but no trace of the body could we find.
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