Rehash

Quick meaning: Rehash is a verb meaning (transitive) To hash (chop food into small pieces) again.

Meaning

(transitive) To hash (chop food into small pieces) again.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To repeat with minor variation.
2. (transitive) To analyze a prior contentious or embarrassing event.
3. (transitive, computing) To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.
4. Something reworked, or made up from old materials.
5. (computing) A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

Example Sentences

The general rehashed plans for the war.

Let's not rehash what we did last night.

He wrote a bad rehash of an earlier essay.

Today's parliamentary session only rehashed last week's arguments.

Word Forms

• rehashes
• rehashing
• rehashed
• re-hash

Synonyms for rehash

Depending on context, synonyms include vamp, retrograde.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include retrograde, repeat, reintroduce, repeating, repetition, resume.

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