desaparecido

[ Spanish de-sah-pah-re-see-thaw; Portuguese de-zah-pah-ri-see-doo; English des-uh-pahr-uh-see-doh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Spanish, Portuguese.

, plural de·sa·pa·re·ci·dos [de-sah-pah-, r, e-, see, -, th, aws, de-zah-pah-, r, i-, see, -d, oo, s, des-, uh, -pahr-, uh, -, see, -dohz].

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.

Antes la componan una piedra tosca y una cruz de palo; la cruz ha desaparecido, y slo queda la piedra.

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