Crossword clues for overwritten
overwritten
Wiktionary
vb. (past participle of overwrite English)
WordNet
v. write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data; "overwrite that file"
[also: overwrote, overwritten]
See overwrite
Usage examples of "overwritten".
The realworld hazed and faded, overwritten by the images transmitted directly to her brain.
He tried to picture the route up the hill through the trees, and realized it had been overwritten through time by that final image of the windmills against the sky.
They read in companionable silence, Ishmael picking his way cautiously through the overwritten fastnesses of pulp journalism and town politics and wondering why the humorous account of two Irishmen caught roasting a Chinese in the boiler of his own laundry should shock him so.
The prose struck him as overwritten and amateurish, so he closed the cover loudly and downed another cup of wine.
Ortega was standing in the doorway wearing a NO TO RESOLUTION 653 T-shirt on which the NO had been stylistically daubed out with a red cross and overwritten with a definitive YES in the same colour.
A palimpsest is a parchment from which one layer of writing is overwritten by other layers.