The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overbuild \O`ver*build"\, v. t.
To build over.
--Milton.To build too much; to build beyond the demand.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To perform excessive construction on a building or in an are
2 (context transitive English) To build over or on top of another structure. 3 (context transitive English) To build with excessive size or elaboration. 4 (context intransitive English) To construct more buildings than necessary in an area.
Usage examples of "overbuild".
Such overbuilding was not uncommon, one religion burying another, a stratification of Roman history.
I am not prepared to believe that the enormous warehouses of Westport were ever filled to overflowing with merchandise, being inclined rather to assign their vast size to that tendency towards overbuilding which is a permanent characteristic of a generous and hopeful people.
To me in my present mood, all they represented was the greed of the developers who were overbuilding and ruining my city.
Without shields in the sense I considered conventional, the warranters and the Space Force ships were cut horridly across the hulls, able to stand up to the pounding only because of their sheer toughness and overbuilt construction.
I am forced to recognize that the leases taken out on cemetery land have in many places become titles of ownership, and worse, that the shores of the Masurian and Kashubian lakes, which used to mirror the clouds, have been overbuilt, made ugly, and laid waste by greed, I am assailed by doubt: Was our idea good and right?
The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate: On either side Disparted Chaos overbuilt exclaimed, And with rebounding surge the bars assailed, That scorned his indignation: Through the gate, Wide open and unguarded, Satan passed, And all about found desolate.
To the employees' surprise, Ford, instead of expressing pride in his well-made kingpins, declared that the kingpins were overbuilt, and that in the future they should be made more cheaply.
It was one of the oldest areas of the vast planetary metropolis, overbuilt with sky-scrapers and towers constructed long ago.
Assuming we can discount Mom and Dad and the two kids there, the distinguished-looking fellow with the goatee and the two overbuilt young ladies is Jules Wallinchky, a man who makes a lot of money providing goods and services to folks who want things they can't legally have.
At the end of the street, though, the Colosseum loomed in all its aged splendor, defying any suggestion that it be overbuilt, as had the city's other vestiges of antiquity.
Two dykes wearing tee-shirts cut off to display their overbuilt arms included him briefly in their Frisbee game, and an older woman with white hair on top and really ugly varicose veins down below brought him a Yogurt Pop because, she said, he looked really hot and uncomfortable, stuck in that chair.
Without shields in the sense I considered conventional, the warranters and the Space Force ships were cut horridly across the hulls, able to stand up to the pounding only because of their sheer toughness and overbuilt construction.