noun
- Any object that is left unused or still extant.
- usage: "I threw out the remains of my dinner"
- The dead body of a human being.
- usage: "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"
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"
- 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"
- 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"
- synonyms: remain
- Stay behind.
- usage: "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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