desaparecido

American  

[de-sah-pah-re-see-thaw, de-zah-pah-ri-see-doo, des-uh-pahr-uh-see-doh] / ˌdɛ sɑˌpɑ rɛˈsi ðɔ, ˌdɛ zɑˌpɑ rɪˈsi dʊ, ˌdɛs əˌpɑr əˈsi doʊ /

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.

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Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

From New York Times

“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.”

From Washington Post

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

From Washington Times

Many are classified as desaparecido — disappeared, people who vanished without a trace.

From Los Angeles Times