remain vs sit out

remain

verb
  • To await; to be left to. 

  • To continue in a state of being. 

  • To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last. 

  • 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. 

sit out

verb
  • To await the cessation of, without taking part. 

  • To decline to participate; particularly, to decline to dance. 

  • To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails. 

  • To escape a hold while face down by swinging one's legs around into the sitting position. 

  • To be away from the table in the midst of an ongoing game, thus automatically placing one's forced bets and otherwise folding every hand when it is one's time to act. 

How often have the words remain and sit out occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )