overwrote
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overwrote verb
- To destroy (older data) by recording new data over it.“I accidentally saved my unwanted changes and overwrote the version of the document I wanted to keep.”
- To cover in writing; to write over the top of.
- To write too much.
- To write in an unnecessarily complicated or florid way; to produce purple prose.
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