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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
bricking en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The act of pelting with bricks.
[…] the severity of some of these brickings the soldiers have to endure […]
1998, Edward Denmark, Not for Queen and Country, page 153:
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(countable, uncountable) The state of an electronic device being rendered completely unusable by a failed or corrupted firmware or software change.
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(countable, uncountable) 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.
Forms
bricking en · VERB
Pronunciation
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of brick