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▸ verb:  (transitive, computing) To destroy (older) data by recording new data over it.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cover in writing; to write over the top of.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To write too much.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To write in an unnecessarily complicated or florid way; to produce purple prose.
▸ noun:  (computing) The operation of destroying older data by recording new data over it.

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