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remain
remain is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
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.
- 2intransitive verb
To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
- 3transitive verb
To await; to be left to.
- 4noun
State of remaining; stay.
- 5noun
That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
- 6noun
That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
- 7noun
The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's
- 8verb
stay the same; remain in a certain state
"The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"
"rest assured"
- 9verb
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"
- 10verb
continue in a place, position, or situation
"After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"
"Stay with me, please"
- 11verb
stay behind
"The smell stayed in the room"
"The hostility remained long after they made up"
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