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desaparecido
[ Spanish de-sah-pah-re-see-thaw; Portuguese de-zah-pah-ri-see-doo; English des-uh-pahr-uh-see-doh ]
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.
Example Sentences
En 2015, cuando la necesidad de m茅dicos hispanohablantes era cada vez mayor, la oposici贸n al concepto hab铆a desaparecido.
鈥淭his is our house. You don鈥檛 live here anymore. You never did. Everyone knows it. The whole neighborhood talks about it. You鈥檙e a desaparecido, a vagabond, a lost cause. So why don鈥檛 you do what you do best鈥攚hy don鈥檛 you just get lost!鈥
Al cabo de un mes, todo el vello de su cuerpo hab铆a desaparecido.
鈥淚 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,鈥 a disappeared person, she said in a 2013 documentary, 鈥淩osario.鈥
His family says he鈥檚 now 鈥渄esaparecido鈥 - disappeared.
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