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Overbuilt

Overbuilt \O`ver*built"\, a. Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town.

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overbuilt
  1. Having had excessive construction performed on a building or in an area. v

  2. (en-past of: overbuild)

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overbuilt

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Usage examples of "overbuilt".

It was one of the oldest areas of the vast planetary metropolis, overbuilt with sky-scrapers and towers constructed long ago.

As for being overbuilt," Gabe grinned, "I don't know a woman who wouldn't kill to be put together like you.

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.