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REMAIN
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they remain ... he / she / it remains
Past simple: remained
Past participle: remained
-ing form: remaining
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stay the same; remain in a certain state
Example:
The bad weather continued for another week
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "remain" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "remain"):
keep out (remain outside)
sit tight (maintain the same position; wait it out)
stay together; stick together (be loyal to one another, especially in times of trouble)
stand (remain inactive or immobile)
keep; stay fresh (fail to spoil or rot)
be (to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Sentence example:
John will remain angry
Sense 2
Meaning:
Be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.
Example:
Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "remain" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
remainder (a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold)
remainder (something left after other parts have been taken away)
remnant (a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Continue in a place, position, or situation
Example:
She continued as deputy mayor for another year
Synonyms:
continue; remain; stay; stay on
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "remain" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "remain"):
hold over (continue a term of office past the normal period of time)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 4
Meaning:
Stay behind
Example:
The hostility remained long after they made up
Synonyms:
persist; remain; stay
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "remain"):
stick (endure)
linger (remain present although waning or gradually dying)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Context examples:
Those whose training began more than 6 hours later remained afraid of the squares.
(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)
Therefore, as you must remain in the Palace for several days, I will have you shown to rooms where you may rest in comfort after your journey.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
About five-and-twenty boys were studiously engaged at their books when we went in, but they rose to give the Doctor good morning, and remained standing when they saw Mr. Wickfield and me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He also began to use strips of the one remaining blanket for his feet.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It would be better if you remained.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The temperature dropped to fifty below zero and remained there the whole trip.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
It must have been this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Opportunity favoured when White Fang remained quiet.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
She could not remain where she was.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Laurie went to Nice intending to stay a week, and remained a month.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
