remain
/ɹɪˈmeɪn/ verb A2- To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared. · After three rounds of interviews, only 5 candidates remained.· I like to make more than enough food if I have people round for dinner, so I can eat my way through what remains in the following days.
- To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised. · If you divide 20 apples between three people, each gets six and two remain.
- To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last. · Promise me you will always remain my good little girl.· She remained a force in local politics until her death.
- To await; to be left to.
- To continue in a state of being. · There was no food in the house, so I had to remain hungry.· The light remained red for two full minutes.
Plural remain · He/she/it remains · Past remained · Past participle remained · -ing form remaining
Verb forms
- Base form
- remain
- He/she/it
- remains
- Past
- remained
- Past participle
- remained
- -ing form
- remaining
From the library
“But tell me, Dantès, if you had command of the Pharaon should you be glad to see Danglars remain?”
The picture gallery, and two or three of the principal bed-rooms, were all that remained to be shown.
“Come, come,” said the sailor, “I have a better opinion than you of women in general, and of Mercédès in particular; and I am certain that, captain or not, she will remain ever faithful to me.”
“If we choose,” replied Danglars, “he will remain what he is; and perhaps become even less than he is.”
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