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Widlarizing

Widlarizing is the present participle and gerund of Widlarize.

Meaning of Widlarize

Verb

Widlarize (third-person singular simple present Widlarizes, present participle Widlarizing, simple past and past participle Widlarized)

  1. (slang, transitive, uncommon) To destroy (a defective electronic component) using a hammer.
    • Now, when I have finished my inspection, and I am still mad as hell because I have wasted a lot of time being fooled by a bad component—what do I do? I usually WIDLARIZE it, and it makes me feel a lot better. How do you WIDLARIZE something? You take it over to the anvil part of the vice, and you...1991, Robert A[llen] Pease, “First Things First: The Philosophy of Troubleshooting”, in Troubleshooting Analog Circuits: With Electronics Workbench Circuits, Boston, Mass.: Newnes, published 1993...

Questions about Widlarizing

What is Widlarizing the present participle and gerund of?
Widlarizing is the present participle and gerund of Widlarize.

Words near Widlarizing in the dictionary

  1. Widjajas
  2. Widlar
  3. Widlarize
  4. Widlarized
  5. Widlarizes
  6. Widlarizing
  7. Widley
  8. Widman
  9. Widmann
  10. Widmanns
  11. Widmannstetter

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