overwrite

verb

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /əʊ.vəˈɹaɪt/ / /oʊ.vɚˈɹaɪt/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English write English overwrite From over- + write.

The operation of destroying older data by recording new data over it.
“Tab to the number specifying the number of overwrites and enter a number between 1 and 9.”

verb

To destroy (older) data by recording new data over it.
“I accidentally saved my unwanted changes and overwrote the version of the document I wanted to keep.”
To cover in writing; to write over the top of.
To write too much.
“Many trainees consider that by increasing the length of the piece they will construct a good feature. This is often not the case and overwriting can lead to vague and muddled features that confuse the reader and ultimately lose their interest.”
To write in an unnecessarily complicated or florid way; to produce purple prose.
“The Times of course has to pay the price of encyclopaedism by being often dreadfully overwritten, with long paragraphs connected by motley conjunctions.”
“He overwrites constantly, but his detailed and understated one-paragraph description of Monroe's apartment in New York (pp. 216-18) injects high voltage into the de casibus tradition.”