Definition of remain

"remain" in the verb sense

1. stay, remain, rest

stay the same remain in a certain state

"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"

2. stay, stay on, continue, remain

continue in a place, position, or situation

"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"

3. remain

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"

4. persist, remain, stay

stay behind

"The smell stayed in the room"

"The hostility remained long after they made up"

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Quotations for remain

Here I am, and here I remain. [ Marshall MacMahon in the trenches before the Malakoff ]

Roses fall, but the thorns remain. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Though lost to sight, to memory dear
Thou ever wilt remain. [ George Linley: Song ]

O there are Voices of the Past,
Links of a broken chain.
Wings that can bear me back to times
Which cannot come again;
Yet God forbid that I should lose
The echoes that remain! [ Adelaide A. Procter ]

What is excellent,
As God lives, is permanent;
Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain,
Heart's love will meet thee again. [ Emerson ]

Thy sum of duty let two words contain
(O! May they graven in thy heart remain!)
Be humble and be just. [ Prior ]

Good deeds remain, all things else perish. [ Proverb ]

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;
Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain. [ Horace ]

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray. [ Goldsmith ]

Though the sore be healed, yet a scar may remain. [ Proverb ]

... but while
I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me.
And smiles at my best meanings, I remain
Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul. [ Tennyson ]

The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken. [ Napoleon ]

Life is an art in which too many remain only dilettantes. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]

Convictions that remain silent are neither sincere nor profound.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good. [ Plato ]

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

From the loss of our friends, teach us how to enjoy and improve those who remain. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Silence and discretion are specially becoming in a woman, and to remain quietly at home. [ Euripides ]

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house. [ Euripides ]

There will always remain something to be said of woman, as long as there is one on the earth. [ Boufflers ]

Evils can never pass away; for there must always remain something which is antagonistic to good. [ Plato ]

Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. [ Ausonius ]

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber; for though the wound may heal, the sear of it will remain. [ Sadi ]

We can prostrate ourselves in the dust when we have committed a fault, but it is not best to remain there. [ Chateaubriand ]

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades. [ Mme. Du Deffand ]

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare and profitless forever. [ Julia Ward Howe ]

There are profound sorrows which remain stored in our souls, and which we always find there when we are melancholy. [ Mme. de Salm ]

The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and love. [ Marivaux ]

Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue; for it is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. [ Tacitus ]

The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation. [ Bacon ]

The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither their good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [ Sallust ]

I am above being injured by fortune; though she snatch away much, more will remain to me. The blessings I now enjoy transcend fear. [ Ov ]

To remain virtuous, a man has only to combat his own desires: a woman must resist her own inclinations, and the continual attack of man. [ Latena ]

A worthless man will always remain worthless, and a little mind will not, by daily intercourse with great minds, become an inch greater. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The book that will make its way in the world, that will remain, or survive, as an imperishable monument, or memorial, must have the stamp of genius upon it. [ Martial ]

Not to know what happened before we were born is always to remain a child; to know, and blindly to adopt that knowledge as an implicit rule of life, is never to be a man. [ Chatfield ]

If much reason is necessary to remain in celibacy, still more is required to marry. One must then have reason for two; and often all the reason of the two does not make one reasonable being. [ Balzac ]

The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens. [ Metastasio ]

Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain, - proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate. [ Leigh Hunt ]

This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again. [ Goethe ]

Valor and power may gain a lasting memory, but where are they when the brave and mighty are departed? Their effects may remain, but they live not in them any more than the fire in the work of the potter. [ Hartley Coleridge ]

Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary. [ Hamilton W. Mabie ]

As for drinking, I have no rule about that. When the others drink I like to help; otherwise I remain dry, by habit and preference. This dryness does not hurt me, but it could easily hurt you, because you are different. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily than people think, only he will not bear it when violently given, even though it be well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain. [ Richter ]

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions. A cloak should be of three-pile, to keep its gloss in wear. [ Hare ]

To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings. [ James Parton ]

A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image, - the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual Venus, - whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons, - breathes the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever. [ Willmott ]

There are chords in the human heart - strange varying strings - which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch. In the most insensible or childish minds there is some train of reflection which art can seldom lead or skill assist, but which will reveal itself, as great truths have done, by chance, and when the discoverer has the plainest and simplest end in view. [ Dickens ]

He must have an artist's eye for color and form who can arrange a hundred flowers as tastefully, in any other way, as by strolling through a garden, and picking here one and there one, and adding them to the bouquet in the accidental order in which they chance to come. Thus we see every summer day the fair lady coming in from the breezy side hill with gorgeous colors and most witching effects. If only she could be changed to alabaster, was ever a finer show of flowers in so fine a vase? But instead of allowing the flowers to remain as they were gathered, they are laid upon the table, divided, rearranged on some principle of taste, I know not what, but never again have that charming naturalness and grace which they first had. [ Beecher ]

remain in Scrabble®

The word remain is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters remain:

AIRMEN
(33)
REMAIN
(33)
MARINE
(33)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word remain

REMAIN
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In remain

AIRMEN
(33)
REMAIN
(33)
MARINE
(33)
AMINE
(30)
MINER
(30)
ANIME
(30)
MARINE
(28)
MANE
(27)
MARE
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MIRE
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REMAIN
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MEAN
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remain in Words With Friends™

The word remain is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters remain:

AIRMEN
(66)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word remain

REMAIN
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In remain

AIRMEN
(66)
MARINE
(60)
REMAIN
(60)
MARINE
(54)
REMAIN
(54)
AIRMEN
(54)
AMINE
(51)
ANIME
(51)
MINER
(51)
MAIN
(48)
REMAIN
(48)
MANE
(48)
MINE
(48)
MEAN
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MIRE
(45)
MARE
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REAM
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REMAIN
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MARINE
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AIRMEN
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Words containing the sequence remain

Words with remain in them (2 words)

Words that end with remain (1 word)

Word Growth involving remain

Shorter words in remain

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Longer words containing remain

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remained

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