overwrite
/oʊ.vɚˈɹaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.43 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To write too much.
verb
To write in an unnecessarily complicated or florid way; to produce purple prose.
Example Sentences
- "I accidentally saved my unwanted changes and overwrote the version of the document I wanted to keep."
- "Many trainees consider that by increasing the length of the piece they will construct a good feature. This is often not the case and overwriting can lead to vague and muddled features that confuse the reader and ultimately lose their interest."
- "The Times of course has to pay the price of encyclopaedism by being often dreadfully overwritten, with long paragraphs connected by motley conjunctions."
- "He overwrites constantly, but his detailed and understated one-paragraph description of Monroe's apartment in New York (pp. 216-18) injects high voltage into the de casibus tradition."
- "That said, the passage just looked at anticipates rather than participates in greatness. It is too adjectival, a stylistic flaw which suggests an insistence more apparent in the ensuing lines (182-91), where one is torn between thinking that Shelley is overwriting and that he is staying close to a feverish intensity."
- "Tab to the number specifying the number of overwrites and enter a number between 1 and 9."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English write English overwrite From over- + write.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /oʊ.vɚˈɹaɪt/
- British English: /əʊ.vəˈɹaɪt/