Definition of Overwritten

1. Verb. (past participle of overwrite) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overwritten

1. overwrite [v] - See also: overwrite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overwritten

overworld maps
overworlds
overworn
overwound
overwrap
overwrapped
overwrapping
overwraps
overwrest
overwrested
overwrite
overwriter
overwriters
overwrites
overwriting
overwritten (current term)
overwrote
overwrought
overwroughtness
overyear
overyears
overyielding
overzeal
overzealous
overzealously
overzealousness
overzeals
ovest
ovi-
oviboses

Literary usage of Overwritten

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1873)
"overwritten with black-letter, and the glad Italian sun makes the effect so much the stronger. We took a lodging, and afterwards J and I rambled about, ..."

2. Defend Your Data!: Guide to Data Recovery by David J. Stang (1991)
"Recovering a Partially overwritten File Experiment: The Completely overwritten File Here arc the steps you can try to create a problem, then solve it. ..."

3. Feodarium Prioratus Dunelmensis: A Survey of the Estates of the Prior and by Durham Cathedral, William Greenwell (1872)
"This clause is struck out, and in a different hand is overwritten, " nichil, tarnen reddere solebat. ..."

4. W. B. Yeats: The Writing of Sophocles' King Oedipus by William Butler Yeats, David R. Clark (1989)
"9 the typed comma is overwritten with a penciled caret which transposes the ... This is then overwritten in blue-black ink, the canceled line below it ..."

5. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri by Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt (1898)
"26 there should here be an overwritten ß to correspond with the u above ... Of the overwritten letters the Y is uncertain; possibly •€!• should be read (cf. ..."

6. A Guide to Understanding Data Remanence in Automated Information Systems by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"During the life cycle of a disk, additional unusable areas may be identified. lf this occurs and these tracks cannot be overwritten, then sensitive ..."

7. SAS(R) 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide by SAS Publishing (2006)
"This file can be overwritten by subsequent installation activities. For this reason, it is recommended that you store application properties settings in a ..."

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