overbuild

present singular third person overbuilds · participle present overbuilding · participle past overbuilt · past overbuilt

1. ambitransitiveTo 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. transitiveTo build over or on top of another structure.

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

3. transitiveTo build with excessive size or elaboration.
4. intransitiveTo construct more buildings than necessary in an area.