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Meaning of remain

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  remain
      v 1: stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress
           remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest
           assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears";
           "The bad weather continued for another week" [syn: {stay},
           {remain}, {rest}] [ant: {change}]
      2: continue in a place, position, or situation; "After
         graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser";
         "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he
         remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy
         mayor for another year" [syn: {stay}, {stay on}, {continue},
         {remain}]
      3: be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence,
         etc.; "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger";
         "Carter remains the only President in recent history under
         whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"
      4: stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility
         remained long after they made up" [syn: {persist}, {remain},
         {stay}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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