desaparecido
noun
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.
desaparecidos
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pluralof desaparecido.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The official numbers of the desaparecidos have more than doubled since 2018.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
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
After Oscar Smith, a labor leader suspected of guerrilla connections, disappeared in February 1977, human rights activists applied for habeas corpus and tacked on the names of 1,451 other desaparecidos.
From Time Magazine Archive
