lurk vs remain

lurk

verb
  • To remain unobserved. 

  • To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself. 

  • To read an Internet forum without posting comments or making one's presence apparent. 

  • To saddle (a person) with an undesirable task or duty. 

  • To remain concealed in order to ambush. 

noun
  • The act of lurking. 

remain

verb
  • 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. 

  • To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised. 

  • To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared. 

noun
  • That which is left; relic; remainder. 

  • That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body. 

  • Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works. 

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