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OVERWRITE
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Irregular inflected forms: overwritten , overwrote
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they overwrite ... he / she / it overwrites
Past simple: overwrote
Past participle: overwritten
-ing form: overwriting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data
Example:
overwrite that file
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "overwrite" is one way to...):
save; write (record data on a computer)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
