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Remained vs Remains - What's the difference?

remained | remains |

As verbs the difference between remained and remains

is that remained is (remain) while remains is (remain).

As a noun remains is

what is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.

remained

English

Verb

(head)
  • (remain)

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    remain

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • State of remaining; stay.
  • That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
  • (plural only) remains : That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
  • The posthumous works or productions, especially literary works of one who is dead.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • * Bible, (w) vi. 12
    • Gather up the fragments that remain .
  • * (John Locke)
    • Thatremains to be proved.
  • To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
  • * Bible, (Genesis) xxxviii. 11
    • Remain a widow at thy father's house.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}
  • To await; to be left to.
  • (copulative) To continue in a state of being.

    • Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Derived terms

    * remain to be seen

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    remains

    English

    (wikipedia remains)

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
    • The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
  • Historical or archaeological relics.
  • (senseid)The extant writings of a deceased person.
  • All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […]  A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
  • (rare)  .

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (remain)
    • We'll go ahead, while she remains here.

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    * * * English pluralia tantum English plurals