remain
1. stay the same;
remain in a certain state (Freq. 128)
- 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 (for: stay)
• Derivationally related forms:
stay (for: stay)
• Hypernyms:
be
• Hyponyms:
keep out, sit tight, stick together, stay together, stand,
keep, stay fresh, be
• Verb Frames:
- Something is ----ing PP
- Something ----s Adjective/Noun
- Somebody ----s Adjective
- John will remain angry
2. continue in a place, position, or situation (Freq. 38)
- 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
• Derivationally related forms:
continuation (for: continue), stay (for: stay)
• Hypernyms:
be
• Hyponyms:
bide, abide, stay, hold over
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
3. be left;
of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc. (Freq. 34)
- 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
• Derivationally related forms:
remainder, remnant
• Hypernyms:
be
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
4. stay behind (Freq. 9)
- The smell stayed in the room
- The hostility remained long after they made up
• Syn:
persist, stay
• Derivationally related forms:
persistent (for: persist)
• Hyponyms:
stick, linger
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
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