Definition of overbuild in English:
overbuild
verboverbuilt əʊvəˈbɪldˌoʊvərˈbɪld
[with object]1Put up too many buildings in (an area)
investors overbuilt the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts
Example sentencesExamples
- Stop whining because you've overbuilt in a drought-stricken area for sixty years.
- In the case of installing temporary practices next to an already-developed site, he likes to overbuild.
- On the flip side, the report calls Houston, Denver, Phoenix, Atlanta and Dallas to the carpet for a repeat pattern of overbuilding flat, sprawling topographies.
- Paris is perhaps the opposite, betraying little of this tendency to overbuild - although traveling the periphérique outside the city center does, like so many cities, offer considerable evidence to the contrary.
- 1.1 Build too elaborately or expensively.
Victorian architecture was considered gross and overbuilt
2often as noun overbuildingBuild on top of.
the preservation of the medieval field pattern by direct overbuilding
Example sentencesExamples
- Meanwhile, critics charge that the real causes of the floods are government efforts to funnel rivers through narrow channels and overbuilding on flood plains.
Definition of overbuild in US English:
overbuild
verbˌoʊvərˈbɪldˌōvərˈbild
[with object]1Put up too many buildings in (an area)
investors overbuilt the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts
Example sentencesExamples
- Stop whining because you've overbuilt in a drought-stricken area for sixty years.
- On the flip side, the report calls Houston, Denver, Phoenix, Atlanta and Dallas to the carpet for a repeat pattern of overbuilding flat, sprawling topographies.
- In the case of installing temporary practices next to an already-developed site, he likes to overbuild.
- Paris is perhaps the opposite, betraying little of this tendency to overbuild - although traveling the periphérique outside the city center does, like so many cities, offer considerable evidence to the contrary.
- 1.1 Build (something) elaborately or to a very high standard, especially unnecessarily.
overbuilding something will always be safer than taking shortcuts
2often as noun overbuildingBuild on top of.
the preservation of the medieval field pattern by direct overbuilding
Example sentencesExamples
- Meanwhile, critics charge that the real causes of the floods are government efforts to funnel rivers through narrow channels and overbuilding on flood plains.