remain

To continue to be the same or keep the same quality.

• The rules remain the same.
• She remained calm throughout the interview.
• They have remained friends for years.

How to use it: remain + adjective (The price remained unchanged.); remain + noun (They remained close friends.)

Similar words: stay, continue to be

Opposites: change

Common phrases: remain unchanged, remain the same, remain stable, remain intact

To stay in a place instead of leaving.

• Please remain here.
• Two guests remained after the party.
• She remained at home during the storm.

How to use it: remain in/at a place (He remained in the car while I went shopping.)

Similar words: stay

Opposites: leave

Common phrases: remain here, remain at home, remain in something

A dead person’s body or parts of it, usually called remains.

• They found human remains near the road.
• Her remains were buried beside her husband.
• The family asked for his remains to be returned.

How to use it: remains of someone (They identified the remains of the missing sailor.)

Similar words: body, corpse

Common phrases: human remains, burial of remains, remains of someone