unbrick

Verb

unbrick (third-person singular simple present unbricks, present participle unbricking, simple past and past participle unbricked)

1. (transitive) To reopen something bricked up.
   • 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
   • "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
2. (slang, transitive) To repair a device that was bricked (rendered inoperative).
   • Using JTAG to Unbrick Your Router2007, Paul Asadoorian, Larry Pesce, Linksys WRT54G: ultimate hacking, page 327