"go dark" meaning in English

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      "orig": "en:Military",
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  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes dark",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going dark",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went dark",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone dark",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "military",
      "tags": [
        "often"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> dark"
      },
      "expansion": "go dark (third-person singular simple present goes dark, present participle going dark, simple past went dark, past participle gone dark)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cease operations, to close."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_dark-en-verb-xAeYZdAs"
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cease communications."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_dark-en-verb-VkHh24Xa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go dark"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes dark",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going dark",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went dark",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone dark",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "military",
      "tags": [
        "often"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> dark"
      },
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    }
  ],
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "glosses": [
        "To cease operations, to close."
      ]
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cease communications."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "go dark"
}