# disappeared

Pronunciation: say "dis-uh-PEERD" US /dɪsəˈpɪɹd/, UK /dɪsəˈpɪəd/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of disappear. — simple past and past participle of disappear
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of disappear. Use this when something went out of sight before now.
   - _The hikers disappeared into the thick morning fog._
   - _By noon the puddles had disappeared from the road._

## Adjective

2. Made to vanish by someone, often a government acting for political reasons. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: Made to vanish by other people, usually a government, often for political reasons.
   - _The government denied any knowledge of the disappeared dissidents._
   - _Decades later, the remains of several disappeared villagers were finally identified._

## Noun

3. A person who has been forcibly abducted by a state and whose fate remains unknown; a desaparecido.
   - Simple: A person who was secretly taken away by a government and never seen again.
   - _Relatives of the disappeared marched through the capital demanding answers._
   - _The commission documented the name of every known disappeared from that decade._

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