Definition of "overwrite" []

• To cover (something) with writing. (verb-transitive)
• To write about in an artificial or an excessively elaborate, wordy style. (verb-transitive)
• Computer Science To destroy or lose (old data) by recording new data over it: accidentally overwrote an important document. (verb-transitive)
• Computer Science To record (new data) on top of already stored data, thus destroying the old data: overwrote an updated document on top of an earlier draft. (verb-transitive)
• To write artificial, excessively elaborate, or wordy prose. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Goldman Sachs derivatives strategists this week recommended such an "overwrite" strategy for shares in home-improvement twins Lowe's and"
• "For shareholders, selling calls can be an "overwrite" strategy that generates income and sets up a potential exit from the stock."
• "Take part in a social music sharing event with a difference - in CD-Recycled 45rpm Aleks Kolkowski uses his vintage record cutter to 'overwrite' existing data and cut grooves on CDs/DVDs so they can be played on a turntable."