🗳️ A party election ⭐ Most important 🔌 A main coil ⚔️ To challenge in election 🪶 A main feather 🌟 A main star

to primary

3 7.9

To try to defeat a politician who already holds the office in a primary election

verb
/ˈpraɪˌmɛri/

: desafiar en las primarias

If you want McConnell out, primary him and defeat him.
get primaried
to primary a sitting president

Examples

Moderate Republicans like Indiana's Dick Lugar were primaried by loons who lost on Tuesday to Democrats.

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His capitulations to the liberals in Congress almost make me hope he gets primaried by a real conservative like Buchanan.

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In 2008, the party would not primary him.

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They say if you did, you would you would immediately face a primary challenge in your district.
Now that it is the general election, some people say, "You should have primaried him!"

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If control is what is needed, don't primary her.

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Obama must either be primaried or somehow convinced to resign.

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From what I hear, Chambliss is most likely to be primaried.

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Progressives didn't have to primary Obama to put pressure on him.

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In order to secure her position, she decided to primary her opponent in the upcoming election.

Compounds

primary care

47 3.0

Basic medical help people get first from a family doctor

primary school

15 1.0

A school for children aged five to eleven where they learn basic subjects

primary care physician

14 3.8

A doctor you see first for health problems who gives general care and arranges specialist help

primary election

12 3.2

An early election where party voters choose candidates for the general election

primary color

5 2.2

A basic color like red, blue, or yellow that you mix to make other colors

open primary

Literature

5 6.4

An early election before the main vote where any registered voter can vote for candidates of only one party

primary care provider

3 3.3

A doctor or nurse you see first for health problems and regular check-ups

primary health care

Specialized

2 3.0

Basic health care you get first from a doctor or community clinic for everyday needs

closed primary

2 7.2

An election to choose a party candidate in which only registered members of the party can vote

primary cell

Specialized

1 5.6

A small battery that you throw away after one use

primary feather

Specialized

1 5.2

A long part of a bird's wing at the outer edge that helps the bird fly

primary tooth

1 3.1

A child's first tooth that falls out when an adult one grows

clown-car primary

Offensive

9.9

An election with too many messy candidates that makes it hard to pick one

direct primary

6.2

A primary election where voters choose candidates instead of party officials

primary amenorrhea

Specialized

9.6

A girl who has not started her first period by the age of 18

primary atypical pneumonia

Specialized

5.3

A lung infection in children and young adults that causes high fever and cough

primary censorship

Jargon

9.1

Military officers check soldiers' personal letters and messages for secret information

primary quill

Specialized

8.9

A long outer flight feather on a bird's wing that helps it fly

primary sex character

Specialized

8.8

Body parts used for having babies, like genitals, that show if someone is male or female

primary sex characteristic

Specialized

5.2

A body part you are born with that helps make babies, like genitals or ovaries

primary color for light

Specialized

3.5

One of three main colors of light, like red, green or blue

primary coil

Specialized

6.2

A loop of wire where changing electric current makes a magnetic field that creates current in a nearby loop

primary colour for pigments

3.3

One of the three basic paint colours red, blue and yellow used to make other colours

primary dentition

Specialized

4.4

The first set of baby teeth that children have

primary dysmenorrhea

Specialized

6.3

Painful cramps in the lower belly that happen during a normal period

primary sexual characteristic

Specialized

7.6

A body part you are born with that is used to make babies, like genitals

primary solid solution

Specialized

7.5

A solid metal in which atoms of other elements mix evenly into its structure

primary subtractive color for light

Specialized

7.4

One of three colors, magenta, cyan and yellow, used in printing to make many colors by removing light

primary syphilis

Specialized

5.8

The first stage of syphilis when a painless sore appears at the infection site

primary winding

Specialized

7.0

A coil that receives input electricity and causes a changing current in the secondary coil

Surface Forms

primary infinitive

primaryed past

primaryed past participle

primarying present participle

primaries third person singular

Etymology

Primary (as in being 'primaried') comes from the election primary, from Latin primus 'first', so to be 'primaried' is to be challenged in that 'first' party contest.