overbuildとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

overbuild (三人称単数 現在形 overbuilds, 現在分詞 overbuilding, 過去形および過去分詞形 overbuilt)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To 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. (transitive) To build over or on top of another structure.

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

3. (transitive) To build with excessive size or elaboration.
4. (intransitive) To construct more buildings than necessary in an area.

反意語

• underbuild

派生語

• overbuilder