remain

Meanings

• stay the same; remain in a certain state
  • "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"
  • "He remained unmoved by her tears"
• continue in a place, position, or situation
  • "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"
• 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"
• stay behind
  • "The hostility remained long after they made up"

Synonyms

continue, persist, rest, stay, stay on