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OVERWRITE (overwritten, overwrote)

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IPA (US): 

Irregular inflected forms: overwritten  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, overwrote  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does overwrite mean? 

OVERWRITE (verb)
  The verb OVERWRITE has 1 sense:

1. write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing dataplay

  Familiarity information: OVERWRITE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OVERWRITE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they overwrite  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it overwrites  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: overwrote  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: overwritten  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: overwriting  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

overwrite that file

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


 Context examples 


Event in which information is unintentionally permanently or temporarily lost, deleted, corrupted, or overwritten.

(Data Corrupted Computer Software Problem Associated with Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)



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