unbricking

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
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