intransitive. To remain standing; remain, stay. Cf. atstand, v. 1.

intransitive. To stand still, remain, stay.

intransitive. With adjective complement. Originally: to leave or depart in a specified state or condition. In later use also with the notion of…

intransitive. With adverb, adverbial phrase, prepositional phrase, or adjective complement. To be or remain in a particular condition, situation…

= continue, v. Obsolete. intransitive. (Cf. senses 13b 16).

intransitive. Of a person: to continue or remain steadfastly or constantly in a purpose, disposition, or course of action, esp. in the face of…

intransitive and transitive = continue, v.

intransitive. To ‘keep in’, continue in some position or condition understood or indicated by context; to restrain oneself, refrain, keep silence…

transferred and figurative. = sit, v. 5, 6, phrases 4. Now dialect or colloquial.

intransitive. With noun or adjectival phrase as complement: to continue to be.

With complement or extension: To remain (in a specified state or capacity).

With predicative complement: To remain in the specified condition.

To remain or continue in a specified condition, state, position, etc. with adjective (or equivalent substantive).

intransitive. To continue in a condition or position; (in the subscription to a letter, etc.) = remain, v. phrases 2. Obsolete.