Overbuild

Synonyms for "overbuild"

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Antonyms

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Translations

4 translations across 2 languages.

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Bulgarian

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  • надстроявам verb (To build on top of another structure.)
  • презастроявам verb (to perform excessive construction)

Finnish

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  • liikarakentaa verb (to perform excessive construction)
  • rakentaa päälle verb (To build on top of another structure.)

Sample sentences

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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.

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

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