Don't leave me shivering in the water (6)
I believe the answer is:
remain
'don't leave' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to change as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'me shivering in the water' is the wordplay.
'shivering' indicates an anagram.
'in the' indicates putting letters inside.
'water' becomes 'rain' (rain is a kind of water).
'me' is an anagram of 'em'.
'em' going into 'rain' is 'REMAIN'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for remain that I've seen before include "Stay on when others have left" , "stop behind?" , "Continue in position" , "Old dance" , "Stay (in position)" .)