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say it: oh-vur-RAHYT
overwrite is a verb meaning "write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data". It is pronounced /ˌoʊvɚˈɹaɪt/ — oh-vur-RAHYT. It carries one recorded sense.
write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data
“overwrite that file”
computer science
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for overwrite come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.