Contextualizebeta

overwriter

noun

Etymology

From overwrite + -er.

  1. derived from *wrey-✻ — “to rip, tear”
  2. inherited from *wrītaną✻ — “to carve, write”
  3. inherited from *wrītan✻
  4. inherited from wrītan
  5. inherited from writen
  6. prefixed as overwrite — “over + write”
  7. formed as overwriter — “overwrite + -er”

Definitions

  1. Software that writes over the contents or unused section of a data store to prevent…

    Software that writes over the contents or unused section of a data store to prevent recovery of sensitive information.

  2. One who writes too much.

    • Overwriters sometimes have an endearingly sincere rationale: “I want to make writing that's pretty. […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for overwriter. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA