Difference between Remain and Remains

What is the difference between Remain and Remains?

Remain as a verb is 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. while Remains as a verb is 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.

Remain

Part of speech: verb

Definition: 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. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last. To await; to be left to. To continue in a state of being.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: State of remaining; stay. That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural. 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.

Remains

Part of speech: noun

Definition: What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.A relic of an ancient building or other structure.All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.(chiefly in the plural) That which is left; relic; remainder.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: 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.

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