rehash

Plural: rehashes

Noun

• old material that is slightly reworked and used again
  • "merely a dull rehash of his first novel"
• Something reworked, or made up from old materials.
• A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

Verb

Verb Forms: rehashed, rehashing, rehashes

• To reuse old material without significant change; to re-discuss.
• present or use over, with no or few changes
• go back over
• To hash (chop food into small pieces) again.
• To repeat with minor variation.
• To analyze a prior contentious or embarrassing event.
• To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

Examples

• He wrote a bad rehash of an earlier essay.
• Let's not rehash what we did last night.
• The CEO of the company only rehashed a speech for the news conference.
• The general rehashed plans for the war.
• They would rehash their Words With Friends game strategy, analyzing every move for hours.
• Today's parliamentary session only rehashed last week's arguments.

Synonyms

hash over, retrograde

Anagrams of rehash