Word Finder - remain

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(chiefly in the plural) That which is left; relic; remainder.

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(in the plural) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.

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Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works.

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State of remaining; stay.

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

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

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To await; to be left to.

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To continue in a state of being.

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The light remained red for two full minutes.

One would argue that energy costs will remain high.

All this time he had to remain strong for his mother.

Yours will remain right beside mine.

I'll treat you well, as long as you remain loyal.

It was all she could do to remain upright on tingling weak legs.

She'll have to remain here for a couple of days.

Now I know you'll remain that way.

Hadn't he tried to remain aloof?

People had limited control over their emotions, but they could certainly remain in control of their actions.

Each of us could find separate areas to be alone but remain close to each other.

Howie was unable to remain sleeping long enough for any success on his last attempt.

How could he remain so composed?

Cars replaced horses; did the stable boys remain out of work?

As Frederick the Great observed almost two centuries earlier, "If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army."

One morning I locked my mother up in the pantry, where she was obliged to remain three hours, as the servants were in a detached part of the house.

Let not a trace of you remain here!...

We could use your help on how we remain anonymous.

Though this town is delightful, it's against my principles to remain in one place for an extended duration.

I myself will remain in hospital at Ostrolenka till I recover.

Take away her assiduous frequentation of society, from the later philosophe coteries to the age of Byron - take away the influence of Constant and Schlegel and her other literary friends - and probably little of her will remain.

Why do you remain silent when heaven knows who permits herself to interfere, making a scene on the very threshold of a dying man's room?

Could she, like other women" (Vera meant herself), "love a man once for all and remain true to him forever?

It killed me, knowing we might remain here, doing nothing, and not knowing what was happening to Betsy and Molly.

I crossed my fingers, hoping my mocking his speech would remain undetected.

On the other hand, the minister of finance reckoned that the revenue would probably show an increase of £TI,Soo,000, while about £T2,000,000 of expenditure would remain undisbursed, which, with a reserve of £T2,000,000 from 1909, would reduce the deficit to roughly £T5,000,000.

Perhaps that's why many of the citizens of the picturesque town decided they might as well enjoy mother nature's offerings rather than remain locked indoors for six or seven months.

She started to rise but her son tugged her down, indicating he wanted to remain.

Though Dean wished to remain at hand's-length from her troubled life he quickly sensed from her disjointed description Cynthia had been correct when she assessed that the woman carried serious emotional pain.

Its church of St Mary is mainly Decorated, and a few old houses remain.

Wise, was carried after much opposition in New South Wales in 1901, to remain in force till the 30th of June 1908.

It did not long remain French, for in 1521 the count of Nassau, Charles V.'s general, took it and added it to the Spanish provinces.

Johor is the only Malay state in the southern portion of the peninsula, the whole of which is within the British sphere, which has been suffered to remain under native rule.

There still remain a minaret and some marble arches and columns.

Many of the ancient oaks that remain in England may date from Saxon times, and some perhaps from an earlier period; the growth of trees after the trunk has become hollow is extremely slow, and the age of such venerable giants only matter of vague surmise.

Some fragments of a later code exist and have been published; but there still remain many points upon which we have no evidence.

It is state-law; alike self-help, blood-feud, marriage by capture, are absent; though family solidarity, district responsibility, ordeal, the lex talionis, are primitive features that remain.

This was the City of Hadrian (Hadrianapolis) or New Athens (Novae Athenae); a handsome suburb with numerous villas, baths and gardens; some traces remain of its walls, which, like those of Themistocles, were fortified with rectangular towers.

He now set out once more for Scotland, but was intercepted by the Florentine cardinal Luigi Capponi, who induced him to remain at Bologna as professor of Humanity.

Its habit is to bury its head in its victim's skin and remain there until gorged with blood, when it drops off.

This government, formed of gentiluomini or nobles, did not remain unchanged throughout the whole period, but was gradually forced to accept the participation of the popolani or lower classes, whose efforts to rise to power were continuous and determined.

At the same time he practically told the Senate that the South would secede in the event of the election of a radical Republican to the presidency; and on the 10th of January 1861, not long after the election of Lincoln, he argued before that body the constitutional right of secession and declared that the treatment of the South had become such that it could no longer remain in the Union without being degraded.

Sir Harry Smith, newly appointed governor of the Cape, met, on the banks of the upper Tugela, a body of farmers preparing to recross the Drakensberg, and by remedying their grievances induced many of them to remain in Natal.

Andries Pretorius and others, however, declined to remain, and from this time Pretorius (q.v.) ceased his connexion with Natal.

According to these men, even though rationality did not exist in any individual, its existence in nature would still remain intact " (Cousin, Introduction, &c., p. cxx.).

Szechenyi had lost his reason some days before; Edtvds and Deak retired into private life; of the conservative ministers only Batthyány, to his undoing, consented to remain in office, though hardly in power.

Nothing now remained but for the king to request Dr Wekerle to remain " for the present " in office with his colleagues, thus postponing the settlement of the crisis (July 4).

With him the line ended, but a younger branch was seated at Eaton Socon, Beds., where the earthworks of their castle remain, and held their barony there into the 14th century.

Scarcely any traces remain of Basingwerk castle, an old fort.

Of these latter, two grades were further distinguished by Lankester - those which remain possessed of a single archenteric cavity and of two primary cell-layers (the Coelentera or Diploblastica), and those which by nipping off the archenteron give rise to two cavities, the coelom or body-cavity and the metenteron or gut (Coelomata or Triploblastica).

Much skill is required to secure that the film when stripped shall remain undeformed.