Remain /(r?-m?n")/

imp. & p. p. Remained; p. pr. & vb. n. Remaining

1. 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.

   Gather up the fragments that remain.

   Of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

   That . . . remains to be proved.

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

   Remain a widow at thy father's house.

   Childless thou art; childless remain.

1. To await; to be left to. [Archaic]

   The easier conquest now remains thee.

1. State of remaining; stay. [Obs.]

   Which often, since my here remain in England, I 've seen him do.

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

   When this remain of horror has entirely subsided.

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

   Old warriors whose adored remains In weeping vaults her hallowed earth contains!

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