Definition of "overbuild"

overbuild

verb
third-person singular simple present overbuilds, present participle overbuilding, simple past and past participle overbuilt
1. (transitive, intransitive) To perform excessive construction on a building or in an area.
  Quotations
  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.
  'c. 1962, Philip Larkin on John Betjeman
2. (transitive) To build over or on top of another structure.
3. (transitive) To build with excessive size or elaboration.
4. (intransitive) To construct more buildings than necessary in an area.