remain vs stand up

remain

verb
  • To continue in a state of being. 

  • To await; to be left to. 

  • 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. 

stand up

verb
  • To continue to be believable, consistent, or plausible. 

  • To bring something up and set it into a standing position. 

  • To rise from a lying or sitting position. 

  • To stand immediately behind the wicket so as to catch balls from a slow or spin bowler, and to attempt to stump the batsman. 

  • To launch, propel upwards 

  • (stand someone up) To avoid a prearranged meeting, especially a date, with (a person) without prior notification; to jilt or shirk. 

  • To last or endure over a period of time. 

  • To formally activate and commission (a unit, formation, etc.). 

  • to make one's voice heard, to speak up 

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