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remain [ re·main ]
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1. Continue to exist, especially after other similar people or things have ceased to do so.
a cloister is all that remains of the monastery
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2. Stay in the place that one has been occupying.
her husband remained at the flat in Regent's Park
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3. Continue to possess a particular quality or fulfil a particular role.
The situation in the Kashmir valley remains serious.
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4. Be left over or outstanding after others or other parts have been completed, used, or dealt with.
a more intractable problem remains
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1. Late Middle English from Old French remain-, stressed stem of remanoir, from Latin remanere, from re- (expressing intensive force) + manere ‘to stay’.
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