Usually means: Replace old data with new.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word overwrite:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. overwrite: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overwrite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overwrite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overwrite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overwrite: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overwrite, overwrite: Wordnik
  7. overwrite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overwrite: Wiktionary
  9. overwrite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overwrite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overwrite: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. overwrite: Dictionary.com
  13. overwrite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. overwrite: Rhymezone
  15. overwrite: Free Dictionary
  16. overwrite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. overwrite: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Overwrite: Investopedia
  2. overwrite: Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. overwrite: CCI Computer
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. overwrite: Encyclopedia

(Note: See overwrites 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:  (transitive, intransitive) To write too much.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) 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.

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