o|ver|build

o|ver|build
o|ver|build «OH vuhr BIHLD», verb, -built, -build|ing.
–v.t.
1. to build too much or too elaborately: »

The administrative structure was overbuilt.

2. to build over or upon: »

Figurative. aquiline his nose, and overbuilt with most impending brows (William Cowper).

3. to build too much upon: »

A city which has been overbuilt, which has "superfluous' houses and flats by the block and mile (Chicago Advance).

–v.i.
to build too much; build too many houses on a site or in an area: »

The recent zoning controversy…has roused New Yorkers to a wider understanding of zoning with the threatened possibility of overbuilding (New York Times).


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