From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
remains
n 1: any object that is left unused or still extant; "I threw
out the remains of my dinner"
2: the dead body of a human being; "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" [syn: cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay,
remains]