Meaning of overbuild | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To perform excessive construction on a building or in an area.
   ambitransitive
2. To build over or on top of another structure.
   transitive
3. To build with excessive size or elaboration.
   transitive
4. To construct more buildings than necessary in an area.
   intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“c. 1962, Philip Larkin 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.”

“The architect wanted to overbuild the restaurant on top of an office.”

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