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remain

Verbs

• (v) stay the same; remain in a certain state
  • The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it
  • rest assured
  • stay alone
  • He remained unmoved by her tears
  • The bad weather continued for another week
  stay, rest,
• (v) continue in a place, position, or situation
  • After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser
  • Stay with me, please
  • despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year
  • She continued as deputy mayor for another year
  stay on, stay, continue,
• (v) be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.
  • There remains the question of who pulled the trigger
  • Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war
• (v) stay behind
  • The smell stayed in the room
  • The hostility remained long after they made up
  persist, stay,

Synonyms

stay rest stay on continue persist

Antonyms

change

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