Thesaurus: remain
To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
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Definitions
- v. i. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
- v. i. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
- v. t. To await; to be left to.
- n. State of remaining; stay.
- n. That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
- n. That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
- n. The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's
- v. stay the same; remain in a certain state
- v. continue in a place, position, or situation
- v. be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.
- v. be in a certain place and not leave