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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The act of pelting with bricks. countable, uncountable

   "[…] the severity of some of these brickings the soldiers have to endure […]"

2. 2
   The state of an electronic device being rendered completely unusable by a failed or corrupted firmware or software change. countable, uncountable
3. 3
   A type of return fraud in which a working electronic item is purchased, then deliberately damaged or stripped of valuable components in order to render it unusable, and then returned to the merchant for a refund as a profit. countable, uncountable

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of brick form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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adamantadobealgidarcticashlarasphalt

Example

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"The latest Nvidia driver seems to be bricking certain graphics cards. I will hold off on installing it."

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.