Overbuild
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Overbuild is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To perform excessive construction on a building or in an area.
Meaning
(ambitransitive) To perform excessive construction on a building or in an area.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To build over or on top of another structure.
- (transitive) To build with excessive size or elaboration.
- (intransitive) To construct more buildings than necessary in an area.
Example Sentences
The architect wanted to overbuild the restaurant on top of an office.
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.
Word Forms
- overbuilds
- overbuilding
- overbuilt
Antonyms for overbuild
Common opposites include underbuild.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include overbow, overconstruct, overload, overreach, overstructure, overlade.
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