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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

... to-night looked particularly brilliant; there must have been a hundred and fifty people present, as the generals and the officers were asked to remain to dinner. I had one general next to me at table, the famous General Changarnier, who my other neighbor said had one foot in the grave and the other dans le plat. He was so old and thin and bony that if his ...

— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone

... panic among American tourists in Paris; President Wilson directs State Department to ask Ambassador Herrick to remain at his post; many left in London as sailing of ...

— The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 • Various

... Bonaparte, twenty-six years after she had ceased to be Miss Elizabeth Patterson, could write "Do we not know how easily men and women free themselves from the fetters of love, and that only the stupid remain caught in these ...

— Hints for Lovers • Arnold Haultain

... three years thereafter, at most, I hope to come to receive her from you; and then, when she shall have made a return visit to Europe, it is quite possible that I may establish myself in my own country again. Should you wish it, I could arrange for the attendant remain with her; but I confess that I should prefer the contrary. I want to separate her for the time, so far as I can, from all the influences to which she has been subject here; and further than this, I have a strong faith in that self-dependence which seems to me to grow out of your ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various

... continued the corporal to a number of his men, who started down the path. "You four men remain here till we come back," he said to the men on the ground, and to two others on horseback. "Keep him here," jerking his thumb toward Willy, whose face was already ...

— Two Little Confederates • Thomas Nelson Page

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