Overwrite

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cover (something) with writing.
  • v. To write about in an artificial or an excessively elaborate, wordy style.
  • v. Computer Science To destroy or lose (old data) by recording new data over it: accidentally overwrote an important document.
  • v. Computer Science To record (new data) on top of already stored data, thus destroying the old data: overwrote an updated document on top of an earlier draft.
  • verb-intransitive. To write artificial, excessively elaborate, or wordy prose.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To destroy old data by recording new data over it.
  • v. To cover in writing.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To write over some other writing, or to cover, as a manuscript, with other writing.
  • To superscribe; entitle.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data
    • Verb Form
    overwrites    overwriting    overwritten    overwrote   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    save    write   
    Variant
    overwrote    overwritten   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bright    Dwight    Knight    Night    White   
    Same Context
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