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Remain [ri-meyn] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
remain [ri-meyn]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: stay, wait
Synonyms: abide, be left, bide, bivouac, bunk, cling, continue, delay, dwell, endure, freeze, go on, halt, hang, hang out, hold over, hold the fort, hover, inhabit, keep on, last, linger, live, lodge, make camp, nest, outlast, outlive, pause, perch, persist, prevail, put on hold, remain standing, reside, rest, roost, sit out, sit through, sit tight, sojourn, squat, stand, stay behind, stay in, stay over, stay put, stick around, stop, survive, tarry, visit, wait
Antonyms: depart, forge, go, leave, move
Main Entry: abide
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: remain or continue in a state
Synonyms: continue, endure, keep on, last, persevere, persist, remain, survive
Antonyms: leave, quit, refuse, stop
Main Entry: abide
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: stop temporarily and wait for
Synonyms: anticipate, bide, expect, linger, pause, remain, rest, sojourn, stay, stick around, stop, tarry, wait
Antonyms: carry on, continue, go, move
Example Sentences
  • But his phoniness would remain a weakness even if he won the presidency.
  • Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it.
  • Newspapers remain at the forefront of defending and promoting press freedom around the world.
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Main Entry: ash(es)
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: remains of burning
Synonyms: charcoal, cinders, dust, embers, powder, relics, remains, ruins, slag, soot
Main Entry: be
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: exist
Synonyms: abide, act, be alive, breathe, continue, do, endure, go on, have being, have place, hold, inhabit, last, live, move, obtain, persist, prevail, remain, rest, stand, stay, subsist, survive
Main Entry: bide
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: wait
Synonyms: abide, attend, await, continue, dwell, hang around, hang in, hang out*, hold the phone, lie in wait, linger, live, remain, reside, sit tight, stay, stick around, sweat it, tarry, watch for
Antonyms: go, hurry, move
Main Entry: body
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: corpse
Synonyms: ashes, bones, cadaver, carcass, carrion, clay, corpus delicti, dead body, deceased, dust, relic, remains, stiff*
Main Entry: cadaver
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dead body
Synonyms: body, cage, carcass, corpse, deceased, mort, remains, skeleton, stiff*
Antonyms: being
Main Entry: carcass/carcase
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dead body; framework, base structure
Synonyms: body, cadaver, corpse, framework, hulk, mort, remains, shell, skeleton, stiff*
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