Sp. /de'sah pah'rdde see"dhaw/ ; Port. /de'zah pah'rddi see"doo/ ; Eng. /des'euh pahr'euh see"doh/ , n. , pl. desaparecidos Sp. /-dhaws/ ; Port. /-doos/ ; Eng. /-dohz/ . Spanish, Portuguese.
one who has disappeared: used, esp. in Latin America, in referring to a person who has been secretly imprisoned or killed during a government's program of political suppression.