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Remain

verb

(past & past part. remained; pres. part. remaining)

Stay the same; remain in a certain state. Synonyms: rest, stay. "Rest assured" , "Stay alone" , "He remained unmoved by her tears" , "The bad weather continued for another week"

Continue in a place, position, or situation. Synonyms: continue, stay, stay on. "Stay with me, please" , "Despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year" , "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"

Be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.. "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"

Stay behind. Synonyms: persist, stay. "The hostility remained long after they made up"

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"Remain" Quotes from Famous Books

... about ten or twenty women, with rustling clothes and petticoats, made their entrance, one by one, into the hall, and thence into the room on the other quarter. She also detected two or three women, with red-lacquered boxes in their hands, come over on this part and remain ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

... omitted; the ladies followed in coaches, and the whole household dined with the Emperor and Empress under a tent erected in the forest. It sometimes happened, though rarely, that the Emperor invited unexpectedly some members of his family to remain to dine with him; and this recalls an anecdote which should have a place in this connection. The King of Naples came one day to visit the Emperor, and being invited to dine, accepted, forgetting ...

— The Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Constant

... protest from parents against the teaching of industries, and there is now a positive enthusiasm for it. In fact, public sentiment among the students at Tuskegee is now so strong for industrial training that it would hardly permit a student to remain on the grounds who was ...

— The Negro Problem • Booker T. Washington, et al.

... there being at that time, in this land, Hebrews, Persians, and Indians, besides the natives, every one read upon the book and letter, as if they had been written in his own language. And thus was this land saved from infidelity (as the remain of the old world was from water) by an ark, through the apostolical and miraculous evangelism of St. Bartholomew." And here he paused, and a messenger came, and called him forth from us. So this was all that passed ...

— Ideal Commonwealths • Various

... slumbers of that marvellous young man of five-and-twenty than I can predicate the priority of the first hen or the first egg. I, with never a murder or a seduction or a robbery on my conscience, could not sleep last night. I doubt whether I shall sleep to-night. I feel as if I shall remain awake through the centuries with a rat gnawing ...

— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke

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