- overbuild⇄overbuild, verb, -built,-building.
- overbuild⇄v.i. to build too much; build too many houses on a site or in an area.
Ex. The recent zoning controversy ... has roused New Yorkers to a wider understanding of zoning with the threatened possibility of overbuilding (New York Times). - overbuild⇄v.t. 1. to build too much or too elaborately.
Ex. The administrative structure was overbuilt.
2. to build over or upon.
Ex. (Figurative.) aquiline his nose, and overbuilt with most impending brows (William Cowper).
3. to build t