bricking

/ ˈbrɪkɪŋ /

noun

1. slang.
   the falsification of evidence in order to bring a criminal charge

Example Sentences

Unless they agreed, users were blocked from access to the Roku menu and apps, essentially bricking their devices.

From New York Times

Is your smartphone inexplicably bricking whenever you try to open your favorite app?

From Scientific American

San Francisco’s robotaxis have become notorious for “bricking”— or coming to a dead stop — in traffic, clogging lanes for emergency vehicles, blocking firetrucks from exiting stations, stopping on fire hoses and driving directly into emergency scenes where Police and Fire Department lights are flashing, rather than going another way.

From Los Angeles Times

Three years later he was bricking under pressure again, going two for 13 to send the 2018 Warriors back to the Finals.

From Los Angeles Times

Ventura also isn’t full of bugs or glitches that are ruining workflows or bricking computers, so there’s that.

From The Verge