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(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.
The architect wanted to overbuild the restaurant on top of an office.
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Overbuild means (ambitransitive) To perform excessive construction on a building or in an area..
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Possible antonyms include underbuild.
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.
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