Overwrites

verb

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.verbTo 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."

2.verbTo cover in writing; to write over the top of.

3.verbTo write too much.

4.verbTo write in an unnecessarily complicated or florid way; to produce purple prose.

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