desaparecido

[de-sah-pah-re-see-thaw, de-zah-pah-ri-see-doo, des-uh-pahr-uh-see-doh]

noun

Spanish, Portuguese.

plural

desaparecidos 

1. one who has disappeared: used, especially in Latin America, in referring to a person who has been secretly imprisoned or killed during a government's program of political suppression.

Example Sentences

En 2015, cuando la necesidad de médicos hispanohablantes era cada vez mayor, la oposición al concepto había desaparecido.

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“This is our house. You don’t live here anymore. You never did. Everyone knows it. The whole neighborhood talks about it. You’re a desaparecido, a vagabond, a lost cause. So why don’t you do what you do best—why don’t you just get lost!”

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Al cabo de un mes, todo el vello de su cuerpo había desaparecido.

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“I was a happy girl, a happy mother, happily married, until the hammer blow of repression when they took my son, and I began to be the mother of a desaparecido,” a disappeared person, she said in a 2013 documentary, “Rosario.”

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His family says he’s now “desaparecido” - disappeared.

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