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desaparecidos

desaparecidos is the plural of desaparecido.

Meaning of desaparecido

Noun

desaparecido (plural desaparecidos)

  1. One of the people who disappeared during the 1976-1983 military rule in Argentina, presumed to have been killed by members of the regime.
    • And Timerman's memoir, Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number, was the book above all that clothed in living, hurting flesh the necessarily abstract idea of the desaparecido: the disappeared one or, to invest it with the more sinister and grisly past participle with which it came into the...2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 193
  2. One of the people who disappeared during the 1972-1981 martial law in the Philippines, presumed to be killed by the military.

Questions about desaparecidos

What is desaparecidos the plural of?
Desaparecidos is the plural of desaparecido.

Words near desaparecidos in the dictionary

  1. DeSantis
  2. DeSantises
  3. DeSantisian
  4. desants
  5. desaparecido
  6. desaparecidos
  7. desargination
  8. Desargues
  9. Desargues configuration
  10. Desargues configurations
  11. Desargues graph

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