brick
/ˈbɹɪk/ verb C2- To build, line, or form with bricks. · to be bricked alive (as a form of capital punishment)
- To make into bricks.
- To hit someone or something with a brick.
- To make (an electronic device) non-functional and usually beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues. · My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm.
- Of an electronic device, to become non-functional, especially in a way beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues. · My phone bricked halfway through the videoconference.
- To blunder; to screw up.
He/she/it bricks · Past bricked · Past participle bricked · -ing form bricking
Verb forms
- Base form
- brick
- He/she/it
- bricks
- Past
- bricked
- Past participle
- bricked
- -ing form
- bricking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
“The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick,” said the Witch, “so you cannot miss it.
She bade her friends good-bye, and again started along the road of yellow brick.
Dorothy helped him over the fence, and they started along the path of yellow brick for the Emerald City.
Toward evening they came to a great forest, where the trees grew so big and close together that their branches met over the road of yellow brick.
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