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

Utilities need to test those procedures before screens go dark and alarms stop reporting correctly. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026

During the Great Depression, fireworks shows went dark, and Grucci found a side job playing drums in a band. — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

As malls and suburbia leeched retailers from downtown, the Metropolitan went dark in 1979. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2026

Now, as the center’s leadership reconsiders a path forward, nearly every stage has gone dark for the foreseeable future. — Janay Kingsberry, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026

Rhymes for go dark

• ballpark
• benchmark
• birthmark
• daymark
• earmark
• embark
• hallmark
• landmark
• monarch
• postmark
• remark
• skylark