English Dictionary

overbuild

動詞

自動詞 他動詞

(transitive, intransitive) To perform excessive construction on a building or in an area. / (transitive) To build over or on top of another structure.

日本語の意味

（過度に）建設を行う、あるいは過剰な建設活動をする / 既存の建造物の上に、新たな建物を建設する

If developers overbuild the beachfront, the area will lose its natural charm.

開発業者が海岸沿いに過度に建設すると、その地域は本来の魅力を失ってしまいます。

意味（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.

意味（2）

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

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

意味（3）

(transitive) To build with excessive size or elaboration.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To construct more buildings than necessary in an area.

overbuilds （ present singular third-person ）

overbuilding （ participle present ）

overbuilt （ participle past ）

overbuilt （ past ）