English-Italian translations for overwrite

• sovrascrivere
  Abbiamo riconosciuto che la direttiva non entra probabilmente in conflitto con altre norme giuridiche europee vigenti, e non può sovrascrivere il Trattato. We acknowledged that the Directive may not come into conflict with other, existing European legal standards, and it cannot overwrite the Treaty.

Definition of overwrite

• To destroy by recording new data over it
• To cover in writing; to write over the top of
• To write in an unnecessarily complicated or florid way; to produce purple prose
• The operation of destroying older data by recording new data over it

Examples

• I accidentally saved my unwanted changes and overwrote the version of the document I wanted to keep.

Related words

• overwrought
• overwriting
• overwrap