Body and Remains

Body

Body noun - The main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts.

Remains is a synonym for body in corpse topic. In some cases you can use "Remains" instead a noun "Body", when it comes to topics like cadaver, animal, carcass.

Nearby Words: bodily, bod, bodied, bodying

Remains

Remains noun - The dead body of a human being.
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Synonyms for Remains

Body is a synonym for remains in cadaver topic. You can use "Body" instead a noun "Remains", if it concerns topics such as corpse, animal, carcass.

How words are described

human human body human remains
mortal mortal body mortal remains
old old body old remains
physical physical body physical remains
Other adjectives: full, dying, original, true, dead, actual, real, big, huge, little, new, mangled, mutilated, broken, bloody, damaged, immortal, frozen, preserved, charred, undead.

Both words in one sentence

  • Their consciousness remains inside their corpse, unless the body is completely destroyed, and all of their senses remain functional.
  • The former attacks with his hands primarily, but when they're ripped he attacks more aggresively with his face (which is the only part of his body that remains by that point).
  • Comicbook / Cyborg Grid took over Cyborg's cybernetic body and tore it from Cyborg's human remains to make its body.
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