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.

• desaparecidos
  plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• desaparecidos
  plural

Example Sentences

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desaparecido desaparecidos

Even after all this time, Manu Chao is still elusive, still the "desaparecido", hurrying down the lost highway.

From The Guardian ● May 9, 2013

Even trying to persuade the government to produce a desaparecido for trial can be dangerous.

From Time Magazine Archive

The two set up an organization that helps find the remains of los desaparecidos — the disappeared — and sparks a moral revolution.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

These people became known in Spanish as the desaparecidos, or “the disappeared.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2021

The official total is 73,000, but the true number of desaparecidos, the disappeared, is unknowable.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2020

My sister Marcela, though, we couldn't find her, and she is still on the "desaparecidos" list.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2013

Wright points out that some of the famed Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo have come to think that it is unpatriotic to continue their demands for an accounting of the desaparecidos.

From Time Magazine Archive