unbrick

present singular third person unbricks · participle present unbricking · participle past unbricked · past unbricked

1. transitiveTo reopen something bricked up.

   "My folks are off playing golf, and Marci's going to that Summer Fun thing at the school. Which means we'll have plenty of time to unbrick that door and see what's behind it."

   2009, John Saul, In the Dark of the Night, page 135

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   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.

   1963, Muriel Spark, chapter 8, in The Girls of Slender Means, London: Macmillan

2. slangtransitivecomputingTo repair a device that was bricked (rendered inoperative).

   Using JTAG to Unbrick Your Router

   2007, Paul Asadoorian, Larry Pesce, Linksys WRT54G: ultimate hacking, page 327