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
Which way?”, holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question.
“All right,” said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
“Off with their heads!” and the procession moved on, three of the soldiers remaining behind to execute the unfortunate gardeners, who ran to Alice for protection.
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