diff --git a/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java b/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java
index 5bd874ade0a..72eeccec448 100644
--- a/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java
+++ b/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java
@@ -977,7 +977,6 @@ public class IndexWriter implements Closeable {
    * @throws CorruptIndexException if the index is corrupt
    * @throws IOException if there is a low-level IO error
    */
-  @Override
   public void close() throws CorruptIndexException, IOException {
     close(true);
   }