overbuild
Verb
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Verb
overbuild (overbuilds, present participle overbuilding; past and past participle overbuilt)
- (ambitransitive) To perform excessive construction on a building or in an area.
on John Betjeman - How much more interesting & worth writing about Betjeman's subjects are than most other modern poets, I mean, whether so-and-so achieves some metaphysical inner unity is not really so interesting to us as the overbuilding of rural Middlesex.
- (transitive) To build over or on top of another structure.
- The architect wanted to overbuild the restaurant on top of an office.
- (transitive) To build with excessive size or elaboration.
- (intransitive) To construct more buildings than necessary in an area.
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