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单词 overbuild
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overbuild

/əʊvəˈbɪld /
verb (past and past participle overbuilt) [with object]
1Put up too many buildings in (an area): investors overbuilt the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts...
  • Stop whining because you've overbuilt in a drought-stricken area for sixty years.
  • Paris is perhaps the opposite, betraying little of this tendency to overbuild - although traveling the periphérique outside the city center does, like so many cities, offer considerable evidence to the contrary.
  • In the case of installing temporary practices next to an already-developed site, he likes to overbuild.
1.1Build too elaborately or expensively: (as adjective overbuilt) Victorian architecture was considered gross and overbuilt
2 (often as noun overbuilding) Build on top of: the preservation of the medieval field pattern by direct overbuilding...
  • Meanwhile, critics charge that the real causes of the floods are government efforts to funnel rivers through narrow channels and overbuilding on flood plains.
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