Remain vs. Remained — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Remain and Remained
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Remain
To continue in the same state or condition
These matters remain in doubt.
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Remained
To continue in the same state or condition
These matters remain in doubt.
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Remain
To continue to be in the same place; stay or stay behind
We are remaining at home.
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Remained
To continue to be in the same place; stay or stay behind
We are remaining at home.
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Remain
To be left after the removal, loss, passage, or destruction of others
Only a few trees remained after the storm. ].
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Remained
To be left after the removal, loss, passage, or destruction of others
Only a few trees remained after the storm. ].
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Remain
That which is left; relic; remainder.
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Remained
Simple past tense and past participle of remain
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Remain
(in the plural) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
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Remain
Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works.
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Remain
(obsolete) State of remaining; stay.
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Remain
To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared.
After three rounds of interviews, only 5 candidates remained.
I like to make more than enough food if I have people round for dinner, so I can eat my way through what remains in the following days.
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Remain
(mathematics) To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
If you divide 20 apples between three people, each gets six and two remain.
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Remain
To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
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Remain
To await; to be left to.
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Remain
(copulative) To continue in a state of being.
There was no food in the house, so I had to remain hungry.
The light remained red for two full minutes.
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Remain
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.
Gather up the fragments that remain.
Of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
That . . . remains to be proved.
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Remain
To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
Remain a widow at thy father's house.
Childless thou art; childless remain.
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Remain
To await; to be left to.
The easier conquest now remains thee.
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Remain
State of remaining; stay.
Which often, since my here remain in England,I 've seen him do.
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Remain
That which is left; relic; remainder; - chiefly in the plural.
When this remain of horror has entirely subsided.
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Remain
That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
Old warriors whose adored remainsIn weeping vaults her hallowed earth contains!
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Remain
The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's
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Remain
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
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Remain
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
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Remain
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
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Remain
Stay behind;
The smell stayed in the room
The hostility remained long after they made up
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