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)
- To cease operations, to close.
- 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 962368035, 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.
- 2009, Vince Flynn, Pursuit of Honor: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, page 204