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}, {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}]

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}, {stay}]