Remain and Transfer

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Remain verb - To continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time.

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Transfer is an antonym for remain.

Nearby Words: remainder, remaining

Transfer verb - To give over the legal possession or ownership of.

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Remain is an antonym for transfer in pass possession to topic.

ability	remain ability	transfer ability
character	remain character	transfer character
people	remain people	transfer people
way	remain way	transfer way
Other words: personnel, money, game, title, damage, abilities.

A few individuals are able to tolerate the transfer and remain conscious "in-jump".

Source: Hyperspace Is a Scary Place
Some Protectors are able to transfer their loyalty to more distant relatives (descendants of siblings, parents, grandparents, etc.) and remain alive for their sake, and a few rare individuals have been able to transfer it to the species as a whole.

Source: Literature / Known Space
With the Earth/Venus conflict, he wanted to remain neutral because he was "Between Planets" and had been on his way back to Mars when the Venusian Rebels seized the space station that was the transfer point to interplanetary craft.

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