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overwrite
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As a verb, overwrite means destroy (older) data by recording new data over it. As a noun, it means the operation of destroying older data by recording new data over it.
Meanings of overwrite
6 meaningsverb
computingTo 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.
To write in an unnecessarily complicated or florid way; to produce purple prose.
Write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data
“overwrite that file”
noun
computingThe operation of destroying older data by recording new data over it.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).