"go dark" meaning in English

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      "form": "goes dark",
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        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going dark",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "went dark",
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      "form": "gone dark",
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "glosses": [
        "To cease operation or shut down, often for purposes of concealment."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "cease"
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          "operation",
          "operation"
        ],
        [
          "shut down",
          "shut down"
        ],
        [
          "concealment",
          "concealment"
        ]
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        "politics",
        "war"
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              42,
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          "ref": "2009, Vince Flynn, Pursuit of Honor: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, page 204:",
          "text": "“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.”",
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        },
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          "ref": "2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: The Fall of Khar'shan Codex entry:",
          "text": "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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      "glosses": [
        "To cease communications."
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          "communications",
          "communications"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly military) To cease communications."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "often"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
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      "_dis1": "48 52",
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "to cease operations, communication",
      "word": "tarî kirin"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go dark"
}

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    },
    {
      "form": "going dark",
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        "participle",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went dark",
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        "past"
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    {
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    },
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "To cease operation or shut down, often for purposes of concealment."
      ],
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          "operation",
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              18,
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          "text": "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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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cease communications."
      ],
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          "military",
          "military"
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        [
          "communications",
          "communications"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly military) To cease communications."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "often"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "to cease operations, communication",
      "word": "tarî kirin"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go dark"
}