rehash

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rehash

/ɹiːˈhæʃ/
/ˈɹiːˌhæʃ/

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verb rehashes · rehashing · rehashed · re-hash

transitive To hash (chop food into small pieces) again. I never did care for Sunday joint that was served up cold on Monday, hashed on Tuesday, rissoled on Wednesday, and re-hashed on Thursday[.]
transitive To repeat with minor variation. Today's parliamentary session only rehashed last week's arguments.
transitive To analyze a prior contentious or embarrassing event. Let's not rehash what we did last night.
transitive To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

noun rehashes · re-hash

Something reworked, or made up from old materials. He wrote a bad rehash of an earlier essay.
Similar: vamp, réchauffé
A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

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verb to rework old material, redo some work, with some variations

Español	rehacer, refundir, refreír
Português	refazer, recauchutar
Français	ressasser
Deutsch	mehr oder minder wiederholen, wiederaufwärmen, verwursten
Русский	переформулировать pereformulirovatʹ

noun something reworked, or made up from old materials

Español	refrito
Deutsch	Aufbereitung
Русский	переформулировка pereformulirovka

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@misc{rehash_2026,
  title = {rehash},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rehash},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}