Remains vs Trimmed - What's the difference?
remains | trimmed |
What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
Historical or archaeological relics.
(senseid)The extant writings of a deceased person.
All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
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(remain)
As verbs the difference between remains and trimmed
is that remains is third-person singular of remain while trimmed is past tense of trim.As a noun remains
is what is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.As an adjective trimmed is
that has been trimmed.remains
English
(wikipedia remains)Noun
(en-plural noun)- The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
citation, passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
Verb
(head)- We'll go ahead, while she remains here.