overwrite
(verb) write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data; “overwrite that file”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
overwrite (plural overwrites)
(computing) The operation of destroying older data by recording new data over it.
Source: Wiktionary
2 July 2025
(noun) getting something back again; “upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
