"overwrite with" is a perfectly valid phrase that can be used in written English.
Its meaning is to replace or substitute something with something else. For example, you could say: "You can overwrite the old settings with the new ones."
Some parts are overwritten, with entire paragraphs devoted to, say, describing a man's suit.
Mr. Guterson goes the other way, overwriting with fussy five-dollar words (pusillanimous, desiccated, orotund), where simple ones would suffice.
By using the aforementioned utility, every sector of the hard drive is overwritten with zeros, thereby destroying all data.
And a frescoed wall, its Botticelli-esque figures overwritten with graffiti, slides in and out of view.
In-pointer to array of bytes that will be overwritten with the data returned by the read.
The gene editing tool, Crispr, allows scientists to cut, paste and delete single letters of the genome with unprecedented precision, meaning aberrant genes can be overwritten with working copies, and, potentially, functional genes replaced with enhanced versions.
A spokesperson for the judges said that some of the nominated extracts "fall into the classic bad sex mistake of overwriting, with mixed metaphors, uncomfortable similes, or becoming so hyperbolic they strains credulity".
In 2004, Riedel and the artist Dennis Löesch produced their own Frieze Art Fair catalog: it was the official catalog of the London fair overwritten with their own text and images.
"I'd be hard put to choose between Christian Mississippi missionaries who fall in love with multilingual Romanian trollops and try to figure them out by reading 'The Hole in the Flag' " — his 1991 memoir about returning to his native Romania — "or rare-book librarians who want to know if the defaced volume of poetry overwritten with obscene verses in 1970 was my work".
The case study revealed that the "target" can be overwritten with time, while "common" does not mean commonly defined.
