overbuild
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To perform excessive construction on a building or in an area.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The architect wanted to overbuild the restaurant on top of an office."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan Old English bytlan Middle English bylden English build English overbuild From over- + build.