OVERWRITE

overwrite

(verb) write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data; “overwrite that file”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

overwrite (third-person singular simple present overwrites, present participle overwriting, simple past overwrote, past participle overwritten)

(transitive, computing) To destroy (older data) by recording new data over it.

(transitive) To cover in writing; to write over the top of.

(ambitransitive) To write too much.

(ambitransitive) To write in an unnecessarily complicated or florid way; to produce purple prose.

Noun

overwrite (plural overwrites)

(computing) The operation of destroying older data by recording new data over it.

Source: Wiktionary



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