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rehash

American  
[ree-hash, ree-hash] / riˈhæʃ, ˈriˌhæʃ /

verb (used with object)

  1. to work up (old material) in a new form.


noun

  1. the act of rehashing.

  2. something rehashed.

rehash British  

verb

  1. (tr) to rework, reuse, or make over (old or already used material)

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noun

  1. something consisting of old, reworked, or reused material

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Etymology

Origin of rehash

First recorded in 1815–25; re- + hash 1

Example Sentences

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In the coming months, the media reprinted and rehashed each other’s old stories, and ran speculative tales about the frozen northlands.

From Literature

Instead, the studio’s approach to entice adults is to bank on nostalgia: rehashed hybrid productions of animated properties that today’s adults watched as children.

From Los Angeles Times

I like “organ recitals”—impromptu get-togethers where old people rehash their illnesses.

From The Wall Street Journal

Lawyers for the families of Letby's victims have dismissed the panel's conclusions as "full of analytical holes" and "a rehash" of the defence case that had already been considered and rejected in court.

From BBC

Ms. Low rehashes that old story, but concedes the delta is at least partially a product of the fact that “many women want to spend time at home with their children.”

From The Wall Street Journal