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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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  1. 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.
  2. v. i. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
  3. v. t. To await; to be left to.
  4. n. State of remaining; stay.
  5. n. That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
  6. n. That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
  7. n. The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's
  8. v. stay the same; remain in a certain state
  9. v. continue in a place, position, or situation
  10. v. be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.
  11. v. be in a certain place and not leave