rehash
Americanverb (used with object)
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rehashes,
present (3rd person singular)
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rehashed,
past participle, past
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rehashing
present participle
noun
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rehashes
plural
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the act of rehashing.
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something rehashed.
verb
noun
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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rehashsimple
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rehashessimple
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have rehashedperfect
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has rehashedperfect
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am rehashingprogressive
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are rehashingprogressive
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is rehashingprogressive
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have been rehashingperfect progressive
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has been rehashingperfect progressive
Past
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rehashedsimple
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had rehashedperfect
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was rehashingprogressive
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were rehashingprogressive
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had been rehashingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of rehash
Explanation
When you rehash something, you use it again without altering or changing it much. Your favorite band's new album will be a disappointment if they just rehash all their old hits. Sometimes movie sequels are great films in their own right, but often they simply rehash the storyline, characters, and jokes from the original. You can call a movie like this a rehash. Another way to rehash is to go over something again, rethinking or reconsidering it: "She just wants to rehash that argument, trying to figure out why her friend got so angry."
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Example Sentences
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Smoove will pop up at some point to rehash Leon and Larry’s dynamic in, shall we say, an ancestral context.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
ChatGPT used deep facts about numbers to construct this beautiful arrangement, which many mathematicians find genuinely creative, not just a rehash of stuff in its training data.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
But some of the reforms announced were a rehash of earlier proposals, such as granting greater autonomy to state-owned enterprises, which account for roughly 80 percent of economic activity.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
An unkind reader might even say that it’s a rehash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
They met dawn in King Walker’s gas station for a rehash of the night they had spent.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
Her astonishing talent for creating a new approach each time out is wasted as she rehashes her Oscar-nominated turn in “The Devil Wears Prada.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
That upward trajectory, and a slow decline of rehashes and breakups until his death in 2017, are abundantly clear in Dowling’s hands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025
Past Disney "rehashes haven't been altogether successful", Diggins wrote.
From BBC ● May 22, 2023
Many in Britain had mixed feelings about a show that rehashes long-running grievances between the Sussexes, the palace and the press.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
Justice Fikeis rehashes the same questions the boys had answered under interrogation, but there's a different edge to his questions now.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Daily posts on his X account feature old photos of himself and rehashed quotes.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
Today, the “golden men” of Islamabad have been added to the ranks of the conspiracy theories sprouted, knocked down and rehashed every day across the city.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2024
Before Sunday's game, only one point separated the sides in Serie A. The stench of hatred had significantly contaminated the air and past controversies were rehashed and relived, provoking an overwhelming amount of tension.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2024
In her Dec. 6 interview with Time, the “Eras” concert film star rehashed the saga, but less in jest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
On their walk to school, they rehashed the plan for Operation Royal Fungus.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Far too many songs—“National Treasures,” “Plot Twist”—are Drake on autopilot, rehashing familiar complaints without clever variations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Neither Michaels nor Neville seems particularly interested in spending this documentary rehashing those early days of “SNL.”
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
AFP fact-checkers found around two dozen Douyin posts from China-based accounts pushing the narrative, many of them rehashing the same video script.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
That being said, the trailer teased the claims she’s likely to make, rehashing arguments she has made in recent months.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2026
There’s no more huddling in bed now, rehashing anything.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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