Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To build over or on top of.
  • intransitive verb To construct more buildings in (an area) than necessary.
  • intransitive verb To build with excessive size or elaboration.
  • intransitive verb To construct more homes, office buildings, or commercial complexes than necessary in an area.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cover, overhang, span, or traverse with a building or structure; build over.
  • To build more than the area properly admits of, or than the population requires: as, that part of the town is overbuilt.
  • To build beyond the demand; build beyond one's means.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To build over.
  • transitive verb To build too much; to build beyond the demand.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To perform excessive construction on a building or in an area.
  • verb transitive To build over or on top of another structure.
  • verb transitive To build with excessive size or elaboration.
  • verb intransitive To construct more homes, office buildings, or commercial complexes than necessary in an area.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From over- +‎ build.

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