overwrite

verb (past overwrote; past participle overwritten)

• 1write on top of (other writing):many names had been scratched out or overwritten
• Computing destroy (data) or the data in (a file) by entering new data in its place:an entry stating who is allowed to overwrite the file
• another term for overtype.

• 2write too elaborately or ornately:there is a tendency to overwrite their parts and fall into cliché