unbrick

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unbrick

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From un- + brick.

verb unbricks · unbricking · unbricked

  1. transitive To reopen something bricked up. The skylight, although it had been bricked up by someone’s hysterical order, at that time in the past when a man had penetrated the attic-floor of the club to visit a girl, was not beyond being unbricked by the firemen. It was all a question of time.
  2. slang, transitive To repair a device that was bricked (rendered inoperative). Using JTAG to Unbrick Your Router

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@misc{unbrick_2026,
  title = {unbrick},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/unbrick},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}