overwrite
verb
over·write
ˌō-vər-ˈrīt 
ˌō-və-
overwrote
ˌō-vər-ˈrōt
ˌō-və-
; overwritten
ˌō-vər-ˈri-tᵊn
ˌō-və-
; overwriting
ˌō-vər-ˈrī-tiŋ
ˌō-və-
: to write too much or in an overly elaborate style
Examples of overwrite in a Sentence
The author has a tendency to overwrite.
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Equipped with a 170-degree, ultra-wide angle and a 3-inch LCD screen, this dash camera has seamless loop recording and a collision-detecting emergency lock that saves the most recent footage leading up to a collision, preventing valuable footage from being overwritten by new footage.
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Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2024
While the Terminator franchise canon is notoriously convoluted, this scenario illustrates a straightforward way to cut through the confusion: Each act of time travel creates a new timeline, overwriting every story that came before.
—Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2024
That dropper had in some cases installed another malware weapon, which FireEye calls ShapeShift, designed to wipe target computers by overwriting every portion of a computer's hard drive with zeros.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2017
Investigators got the cockpit voice recorder from the Alaska Airlines jet, but the recorder on the Southwest plane was overwritten after the plane took off.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
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Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2024
While the Terminator franchise canon is notoriously convoluted, this scenario illustrates a straightforward way to cut through the confusion: Each act of time travel creates a new timeline, overwriting every story that came before.
—Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2024
That dropper had in some cases installed another malware weapon, which FireEye calls ShapeShift, designed to wipe target computers by overwriting every portion of a computer's hard drive with zeros.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2017
Investigators got the cockpit voice recorder from the Alaska Airlines jet, but the recorder on the Southwest plane was overwritten after the plane took off.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Overwrite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overwrite. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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overwrite
verb
over·write
ˌō-və(r)-ˈrīt
1
: to write over the surface of : write on top of
2
: to write too much or in an overly elaborate style
overwritten accounts of everyday events
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