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disappeared, a. and n.
Brit. |ˌdɪsəˈpɪəd|, U.S. |ˌdɪsəˈpɪ(ə)rd|
[‹ disappear v. + -ed suffix1.]
A. adj.
1. That has disappeared; lost, vanished.
1857A. G. De Gurowski Amer. & Europe i. 11 History overthrows the condemnatory verdicts, and teaches that the fact was the reverse, and restores to their due share the disappeared, wasted and withered races and nations. 1924W. T. Stace Philos. Hegel (1955) iv. i. §3 365 The disappeared image has retired into the black pit of the mind's potentiality. Hence to talk of images, ideas, etc., as actually ‘existing’ in the sub-conscious is..foolish. 1976J. Hodgins Separating in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1978) 130, I am a wifeless man, Spit tells the disappeared youth. 1996F. McCourt Angela's Ashes (1997) vi. 174 Mrs Slattery's neighbours call her Mrs. Offer-It-Up because no matter what happens, a broken leg, a spilled cup of tea, a disappeared husband, she says, Well now, I'll offer that up, and I'll have no end of Indulgences to get me into heaven.
2. Of a person: reported missing and presumed dead; spec. (euphem.) arrested or abducted (esp. for political reasons) and subsequently secretly imprisoned or killed. Cf. disappear v.
1947E. Heimann Freedom & Order vi. 198 The issue of the disappeared Polish officers is..confused. The version most charitable to the Russians seems to be that they failed to evacuate the Poles; then the Germans shot them, and the Russians..foolishly hushed it up. 1974N.Y. Times 12 Mar. 11/1 Mr Guerra was..legal adviser to the Committee of Relatives of Disappeared Persons, a lobby group that has held the authorities responsible for the death or disappearance of several hundred people in recent years. 1989Third Text Summer 25 A ritual of collective, silent demonstration performed by an Argentinian association of female relatives of ‘disappeared’ civilians. 1998Business Day (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 29 Apr. 8 ‘It is clear that the abductors of the disappeared political activists systematically and repeatedly violated Indonesian law,’ said Sidney Jones, executive director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division.
B. n. With pl. concord. With the: people who have disappeared as a class; spec. (euphem.) those who have been arrested or abducted (esp. for political reasons) and then secretly imprisoned or killed. Cf. disappear v.
In spec. use, freq. with reference to Latin America and prob. originally after Spanish desaparecido: see desaparecido n.
1969C. Bukowski Days run away like Wild Horses III. 188 The hearse comes through the room filled with The beheaded, the disappeared, the living Mad. 1978R. M. Brown Theol. in New Key iii. 84 People are taken from their homes by masked gangs. They are never heard from again; they become ‘the disappeared’, who are tortured to extract information about their political activities before they are killed. 1983Guardian Weekly 22 May 17 Specifically we will talk about the disappeared—men, women, children, and babies—the babies sometimes born, killed or lost in government captivity. 1998Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 1 May In addition to a firm commitment on decommissioning, he said his party wanted to see a resolution to the dreadful suffering to the relatives of the ‘disappeared’ and the standing down of the IRA active service units. |