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remains

noun
/ɹɪˈmeɪnz/

Definitions

  1. The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies

    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.

  2. Historical or archaeological relics.

  3. The extant writings of a deceased person.

    • To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. All that is left of the stock of some things

      All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.

      • He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.

    2. plural of remain

    3. third-person singular simple present indicative of remain

      • We'll go ahead, while she remains here.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at remains. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at remains. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at remains

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA