Remained vs. Remain: What's the Difference?
Remained and Remain Definitions
Remained
To continue in the same state or condition
These matters remain in doubt.
Remain
To continue in the same state or condition
These matters remain in doubt.
Remained
To continue to be in the same place; stay or stay behind
We are remaining at home.
Remain
To continue to be in the same place; stay or stay behind
We are remaining at home.
Remained
To be left after the removal, loss, passage, or destruction of others
Only a few trees remained after the storm. ].
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Remain
To be left after the removal, loss, passage, or destruction of others
Only a few trees remained after the storm. ].
Remained
Simple past tense and past participle of remain
Remain
That which is left; relic; remainder.
Remain
(in the plural) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
Remain
Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works.
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Remain
(obsolete) State of remaining; stay.
Remain
To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared.
After three rounds of interviews, only 5 candidates remained.
I like to make more than enough food if I have people round for dinner, so I can eat my way through what remains in the following days.
Remain
(mathematics) To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
If you divide 20 apples between three people, each gets six and two remain.
Remain
To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
Remain
To await; to be left to.
Remain
(copulative) To continue in a state of being.
There was no food in the house, so I had to remain hungry.
The light remained red for two full minutes.
Remain
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.
Remain
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.
Remain
To await; to be left to.
The easier conquest now remains thee.
Remain
State of remaining; stay.
Which often, since my here remain in England,I 've seen him do.
Remain
That which is left; relic; remainder; - chiefly in the plural.
When this remain of horror has entirely subsided.
Remain
That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
Old warriors whose adored remainsIn weeping vaults her hallowed earth contains!
Remain
The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's
Remain
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
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
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
Remain
Stay behind;
The smell stayed in the room
The hostility remained long after they made up
