overwriting

noun

(computing) The operation of destroying older data by recording new data over it.

verb

(transitive, computing) To destroy (older) data by recording new data over it.

(transitive) To cover in writing; to write over the top of.

(ambitransitive) To write too much.

(ambitransitive) To write in an unnecessarily complicated or florid way; to produce purple prose.

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