What is the meaning of remain?

verb

• Stay the same; remain in a certain state.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: stay, rest
• Continue in a place, position, or situation.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: stay, stay on, continue
• Be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc..
  • usage: "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"
• Stay behind.
  • usage: "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up"
  • synonyms: persist, stay