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remain

Dictionary definition · remain

verb

  1. stay the same; remain in a certain state"The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"
  2. continue in a place, position, or situation"After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"
  3. be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc."There remains the question of who pulled the trigger"
  4. be in a certain place and not leave"We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).