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Definition of Remain
Remain

To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.

To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.

To await; to be left to.

State of remaining; stay.

That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.

That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.

The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's

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Remain Quotations

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Alphonse Karr

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso

Remain Translations

remain in Afrikaans is bly
remain in Danish is blive, forblive
remain in Dutch is achterblijven, nablijven
remain in French is restons, rester, restent, restez
remain in Italian is rimanere
remain in Latin is commoror
remain in Spanish is quedarse, permanecer


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