Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to brick
Participle: bricked
Gerund: bricking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | brick |
| you | brick |
| he;she;it | bricks |
| we | brick |
| you | brick |
| they | brick |
Perfect
| I | have bricked |
| you | have bricked |
| he;she;it | has bricked |
| we | have bricked |
| you | have bricked |
| they | have bricked |
Past
| I | bricked |
| you | bricked |
| he;she;it | bricked |
| we | bricked |
| you | bricked |
| they | bricked |
Pluperfect
| I | had bricked |
| you | had bricked |
| he;she;it | had bricked |
| we | had bricked |
| you | had bricked |
| they | had bricked |
Future
| I | will brick |
| you | will brick |
| he;she;it | will brick |
| we | will brick |
| you | will brick |
| they | will brick |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bricked |
| you | will have bricked |
| he;she;it | will have bricked |
| we | will have bricked |
| you | will have bricked |
| they | will have bricked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | brick |
| you | brick |
| he;she;it | brick |
| we | brick |
| you | brick |
| they | brick |
Perfect
| I | have bricked |
| you | have bricked |
| he;she;it | have bricked |
| we | have bricked |
| you | have bricked |
| they | have bricked |
Imperfect
| I | bricked |
| you | bricked |
| he;she;it | bricked |
| we | bricked |
| you | bricked |
| they | bricked |
Pluperfect
| I | had bricked |
| you | had bricked |
| he;she;it | had bricked |
| we | had bricked |
| you | had bricked |
| they | had bricked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would brick |
| you | would brick |
| he;she;it | would brick |
| we | would brick |
| you | would brick |
| they | would brick |
Perfect
| I | would have bricked |
| you | would have bricked |
| he;she;it | would have bricked |
| we | would have bricked |
| you | would have bricked |
| they | would have bricked |
Imperative
| you | brick |
| we | Let's brick |
| you | brick |
Verbs conjugated like 'brick'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'brick'
blick,
brisk,
brock,
crick,
prick,
rick,
trick,
wrick,
back,
beck,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break.
2. The social media slang sense derives from memes about building up one's feed “brick by brick”, analogizing bricks with reels that inform the algorithm.
3. The sense of a helpful, reliable person comes from Lycurgus referring to the army as the walls of Sparta, every man a brick.
Sample Sentences
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to be bricked alive (as a form of capital punishment)
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If the ground is strong right up to the surface, a few yards are usually sunk and bricked before the engines and pit top are erected [1904, Thomas Hansom Cockin, An Elementary Class-Book of Practical Coal-Mining, C. Lockwood and Son, page 78:]
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The shaft was next bricked between the decks until the top scaffold was supported by the brickwork and [made] to share the weight with the prids. [1914, The Mining Engineer, Institution of Mining Engineers, page 349:]
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He came in and we went out to the back area I'd bricked amateurishly years ago. [2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 18:]
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The plant, which is here described, for bricking fine ores and flue dust, was designed and the plans produced in the engineering department of the Selby smelter. [1904 August 15, James C. Bennett, “Lead Smelting and Refining with Some Notes on Lead Mining”, in Walter Renton Ingalls, editor, The Engineering and Mining Journal, published 1906, page 66:]
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My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm.
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Just need to project against users from deleting NK.BIN and bricking the device. [2002 October 15, Mike Leeson, “How to write protect nk.bin”, in microsoft.public.windowsce.platbuilder (Usenet), retrieved 25 Feb 2016, message-ID :]
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installing third-party firmware will void your warranty, and it is possible that you may brick your router. [2007 December 14, Joe Barr, “PacketProtector turns SOHO router into security powerhouse”, in Linux.com:]
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Google owner Alphabet’s subsidiary Nest is closing a smart-home company it bought less than two years ago, leaving customers’ devices useless as of May. […] The company declined to share how many customers would be left with bricked devices as a result of the shutdown. [2016, Alex Hern, “Revolv devices bricked as Google's Nest shuts down smart home company”, in The Guardian:]
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My phone bricked halfway through the videoconference.