remain
ri mayn
- v stay the same; remain in a certain state
The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it
He remained unmoved by her tears - v continue in a place, position, or situation
despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year - v 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 - v stay behind
The hostility remained long after they made up
- While Jaycee Lee Dugard has been reunited with her family after being abducted 18 years ago, plenty of disappearances remain unexplained.
- Rose Tremain crafts a seductive heroine in a novel about art, love and the impossibility of dreams.
- Senator Barack Obama probably thought that the prayer he penned in the solitude of his King David Hotel room in Jerusalem would remain between him and the Almighty.