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remain

 
 
/rɪˈmeɪn/ verb

Translation

[I] to continue to exist when everything or everyone else has gone
kalmak
Only a few hundred of these animals remain today.1827
remain calm/open, etc; remain a secret/mystery/prisoner, etc to continue to be in the same state
sakin/açık vs. kalmak; bir sır/gizem/mahkum vs. kalmak
Despite the chaos around him, he remained calm. The exact date of the wedding remains a secret.2154
remain at/in/with, etc formal to stay in the same place
aynı durumda/konumda kalmak
She will remain at her mother's until I return.1594
(Definition of remain verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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