OVERWRITE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected forms: overwritten , overwrote

Present simple: I / you / we / they overwrite ... he / she / it overwrites

Past simple: overwrote

Past participle: overwritten

-ing form: overwriting

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