go dark

phrase

1

: to become dark

The room suddenly went dark.

2

a

: to stop operating or functioning : to shut down

Most Salt Lake City restaurants go dark on Sundays …

—Kurt Repanshek

Andy Beal was one of 220 million subscribers to Skype … who saw the service go dark on Aug. 16.

—Stephen Baker

In the end, the heart stops, the cells die, the neurons go dark …

—Joshua Ferris

b

communications : to stop broadcasting or transmitting : to go offline

… Lt. Col. Steve Russell of the Army's 4th Infantry Division ordered his men to "go dark" and roll their Humvees up to the edge of a lone farmhouse here.

—William Booth

Examples of go dark in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Streaks of light fly down the carriage in one dueling scene, and in the show’s climax, the lights go dark when a dementor — played by a hooded actor puppeteering the creature strapped to their torso — floats down the aisle. — Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026

String lights glowed overhead as the San Gabriel Mountains went dark behind them. — David Hochman, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Officials traced his cell phone data, reporting that his phone went dark during the hours of the crime, and then reconnected to cellular towers after the fatal incident. — Kalia Richardson, USA Today, 29 July 2026

The worst four months were spent completely alone in a small cell, beneath a bright light that never went dark. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026

Rhymes for go dark

• ballpark
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• daymark
• earmark
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• hallmark
• landmark
• monarch
• postmark
• remark
• skylark