overbuild
verbEtymology From over- + build.
1
Ambitransitive To perform excessive construction on a building or in an area.
- 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.
2
To build over or on top of another structure.
- The architect wanted to overbuild the restaurant on top of an office.
3
To build with excessive size or elaboration.
4
To construct more buildings than necessary in an area.
- Antonyms
- underbuild
- Derived terms
- overbuilder