rehash
[verb ree-hash; noun ree-hash]
- to work up (old material) in a new form.
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- the act of rehashing.
- something rehashed.
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Origin of rehash
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Examples from the Web for rehashed
Contemporary Examples
Photo ops and the rehashing of decade old initiatives that rehashed decades older resolutions is not going to do it.
Instead he mocked them and rehashed old ideas with retread rhetoric.
Historical Examples
With everything set and ready to go, the revised and rehashed Red Flight prepared to take a little outing.
A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F.Rutherford G. Montgomery
Rehashed departmental reports become mere braggadocio when the human interest is lacking.
Fighting ByngA. Stone
But all that same stuff has been hashed and rehashed to the people through the sources I have already mentioned.
Quacks and GraftersUnknown
Mr. Magee broke away from the mayor's rehashed history, and hurried to Miss Norton.
Seven Keys to BaldpateEarl Derr Biggers
We've hashed and rehashed this before, Nadine and now we're too busy to debate further.
MercenaryDallas McCord Reynolds
rehash
- (tr) to rework, reuse, or make over (old or already used material)
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- something consisting of old, reworked, or reused material
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Word Origin
C19: from re- + hash 1 (to chop into pieces)
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Word Origin and History for rehashed
rehash
rehash
n.
1849, from rehash (v.); "old material worked up anew," usually of literary productions.
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