Usually means: Excessively elaborate or needlessly wordy.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. overwritten: Merriam-Webster
  2. overwritten: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overwritten: Collins English Dictionary
  4. overwritten: Vocabulary.com
  5. Overwritten, overwritten: Wordnik
  6. overwritten: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. overwritten: Wiktionary
  8. overwritten: Dictionary.com
  9. overwritten: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overwritten: Encyclopedia

(Note: See overwrite as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, computing) To destroy (older) data by recording new data over it.
verb:  (transitive) To cover in writing; to write over the top of.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To write too much.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To write in an unnecessarily complicated or florid way; to produce purple prose.
noun:  (computing) The operation of destroying older data by recording new data over it.
▸ Also see overwrite


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