go dark

English

Verb

go dark (third-person singular simple present goes dark, present participle going dark, simple past went dark, past participle gone dark) (often military)

  1. To cease operation or shut down, often for purposes of concealment.
  2. (chiefly military) To cease communications.
    • 2009, Vince Flynn, Pursuit of Honor: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, page 204:
      “But this third cell,” Butler said, “they went dark. No one had heard from them in months. That is, until the bombs started going off last week.”
    • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: The Fall of Khar'shan Codex entry:
      More systems have gone dark as their comm buoys were destroyed, and millions more batarians, trapped on their planets, sit waiting for the Reapers.

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