Past tense of overwrite
irregular verb
The past tense of overwrite is overwrote. The past participle is overwritten.
Forms of overwrite
| Base form (V1) | overwrite /əʊ.vəˈɹaɪt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | overwrote |
| Past participle (V3) | overwritten |
| Present participle | overwriting |
| Third person singular | overwrites |
Overwrote and overwritten in a sentence
- I accidentally saved my unwanted changes and overwrote the version of the document I wanted to keep.
- The Times of course has to pay the price of encyclopaedism by being often dreadfully overwritten, with long paragraphs connected by motley conjunctions.1954, Edwin H. Ford, Edwin Emery, Highlights in the History of the American Press: A Book of Readings, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 367
Meaning of overwrite
- verb To destroy (older) data by recording new data over it.
- verb To cover in writing; to write over the top of.
- verb To write too much.
Verbs like overwrite
Questions about the past tense of overwrite
- What is the past tense of overwrite?
- The past tense of overwrite is overwrote.
- What is the past participle of overwrite?
- The past participle of overwrite is overwritten.
- Is overwrite a regular or irregular verb?
- Overwrite is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: overwrite (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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