remain

plural remains

1. in pluralThat which is left; relic; remainder.
2. in pluralThat which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
3. Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works.
4. obsoleteState of remaining; stay.

present singular third person remains · participle present remaining · participle past remained · past remained · first person past singular remained · archaic present second person singular remainest · past second person singular remained · archaic past second person singular remainedst · present singular third person remains · archaic present singular third person remaineth · past singular third person remained · past plural remained · past subjunctive remained · participle present remaining · participle past remained

1. To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared.

   After three rounds of interviews, only 5 candidates remained.

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   I like to make more than enough food if I have people round for dinner, so I can eat my way through what remains in the following days.

   Gather up the fragments that remain.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 6:12

   SEM of the apopyles with apopylar cells and choanocyte chamber remaining on the wound surface.

   2015 August 14, “Oscarella lobularis (Homoscleromorpha, Porifera) Regeneration: Epithelial Morphogenesis and Metaplasia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

2. mathematicsTo be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.

   If you divide 20 apples between three people, each gets six and two remain.

   Synonyms: rest

3. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.

   , Book I That […] remains to be proved.

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   Promise me you will always remain my good little girl.

   She remained a force in local politics until her death.

   Remain a widow at thy father's house.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 38:11

   We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.

   1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

   But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts have remained unaltered.

   1946 July and August, “Mileposts and their Peculiarities”, in Railway Magazine, page 217

   Synonyms: linger, endure

4. To await; to be left to.

   Synonyms: await

5. copulativeTo continue in a state of being.

   The light remained red for two full minutes.

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   There was no food in the house, so I had to remain hungry.

   Synonyms: stay