disappeared

Pluraldisappeareds

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of disappear. Use this when something went out of sight before now.

   The sun disappeared behind the hills.

   My phone disappeared from the table while I was gone.

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2. 2
   adjectivecolloquialeuphemistic

   Made to vanish by other people, usually a government, often for political reasons.

   Like a person taken away in secret, as if they were never there.

   The disappeared prisoners left behind worried families.

   Many disappeared activists were taken from their homes at night.

   Similarmissing, vanished, abducted

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3. 3
   nouncountable

   A person who was secretly taken away by a government and never seen again.

   The disappeared were honored at a memorial in the city square.

   Her brother became one of the disappeared during the war.

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