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
“Jim Cramer is a very good guy,” Blankfein said during the interview, seemingly uneager to rehash the story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
"He's taking Dior somewhere completely unprecedented. But I think he's exactly where he should be, since he's not there to rehash old ideas," Adrien Communier from GQ magazine in France told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
Pauling’s talk, however, was only a humorous rehash of published ideas.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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
The first question to ask in approaching these rehashes is: Do they make any sense if you don’t know the source?
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
People accustomed to reading comparatively dry rehashes of events were now enthralled by vivid scenes rolling across the new Movietone newsreels.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
The audience rehashed its hunches, they circled potential suspects, they stared at a static image of a horrific crime scene, awash in twinkling moonlight.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026
Daily posts on his X account feature old photos of himself and rehashed quotes.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
These stories also tend to be rehashed and retread because fame breeds fascination, of course, and name recognition helps when seeking the eyes and ears of an audience.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2024
After Diddy’s son Christian ‘King’ Combs name-checked 50 Cent on a diss track, he roasted the young Combs and rehashed allegations against him and his father.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2024
Argument after argument, old injuries were rehashed and threaded through new ones.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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
The justice continued to insist that the court lacks jurisdiction to protect the migrants at this juncture, rehashing technical arguments that are simply false.
From Slate ● May 16, 2025
I didn’t sleep much that night, hashing and rehashing the next morning’s strategy.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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