remain

Verb

• stay behind
  • The smell stayed in the room
    
  • The hostility remained long after they made up
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  persist , stay , stay on , continue , rest