9 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
verb write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data
originEtymology 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.
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