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went dark

went dark is the simple past of go dark.

Meaning of go dark

Verb

go dark (third-person singular simple present goes dark, present participle going dark, simple past went dark, past participle gone dark)

  1. (often) To cease operation or shut down, often for purposes of concealment.
  2. (often) To cease communications.
    • “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.”2009, Vince Flynn, Pursuit of Honor: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, page 204

Questions about went dark

What is went dark the simple past of?
Went dark is the simple past of go dark.

Words near went dark in the dictionary

  1. went cheap
  2. went commando
  3. went country
  4. went crazy
  5. went cunch
  6. went dark
  7. went deep
  8. went down
  9. went down fighting
  10. went down in flames
  11. went down in history

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