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soft-brick

soft-brick verb: to cause (an electronic device) to fail to operate while still showing signs of life, for example a computer switching on but failing to boot.

Verb

soft-brick (third-person singular simple present soft-bricks, present participle soft-bricking, simple past and past participle soft-bricked)

  1. (transitive) To cause (an electronic device) to fail to operate while still showing signs of life, for example a computer switching on but failing to boot.

Forms of soft-brick

third-person singular presentsoft-bricks
present participlesoft-bricking
past participlesoft-bricked
pastsoft-bricked

Questions about soft-brick

What does soft-brick mean?
Soft-brick means to cause (an electronic device) to fail to operate while still showing signs of life, for example a computer switching on but failing to boot.
What part of speech is soft-brick?
Soft-brick is a verb.
What is the past tense of soft-brick?
The past tense of soft-brick is soft-bricked.

Words near soft-brick in the dictionary

  1. soft-block
  2. soft-blocked
  3. soft-blocking
  4. soft-blocks
  5. soft-boiled
  6. soft-brick
  7. soft-cancel
  8. soft-close
  9. Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier
  10. Soft-coated Wheaten Terriers
  11. soft-core

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