REHASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rehash mean? 

• REHASH (noun)
  The noun REHASH has 1 sense:

1. old material that is slightly reworked and used again

  Familiarity information: REHASH used as a noun is very rare.

• REHASH (verb)
  The verb REHASH has 2 senses:

1. present or use over, with no or few changes

2. go back over

  Familiarity information: REHASH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REHASH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Old material that is slightly reworked and used again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

merely a dull rehash of his first novel

Hypernyms ("rehash" is a kind of...):

material (information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form)

Derivation:

rehash (go back over)

rehash (present or use over, with no or few changes)

• REHASH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rehash    ... he / she / it rehashes   
Past simple: rehashed   
Past participle: rehashed   
-ing form: rehashing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Present or use over, with no or few changes

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "rehash" is one way to...):

recycle; reprocess; reuse (use again after processing)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

rehash (old material that is slightly reworked and used again)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Go back over

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

hash over; rehash; retrograde

Context example:

retrograde arguments

Hypernyms (to "rehash" is one way to...):

recap; recapitulate (summarize briefly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

rehash (old material that is slightly reworked and used again)