Meaning of Bricking | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of pelting with bricks.
   countable, uncountable
2. The state of an electronic device being rendered completely unusable by a failed or corrupted firmware or software change.
   countable, uncountable
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

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Examples

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

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