Do you have a reference for the trend of dictionaries rewriting words? Is it any different then dictionaries keeping up with the way language is being used in t

Do you have a reference for the trend of dictionaries rewriting words? Is it any different then dictionaries keeping up with the way language is being used in the present? Also, don't new definitions usually get added on top of the older ones? (E.g. literally meaning both literally and figuratively now)