Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To bring forth again in another form without significant alteration.
- transitive verb To discuss (the details of a past event).
- noun The act or result of rehashing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To hash anew; work up, as old material, in a new form.
- noun Something hashed afresh; something concocted from materials formerly used: as, a literary rehash.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To hash over again; to prepare or use again.
- noun Something hashed over, or made up from old materials.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
rework oldmaterial (physical material,ideas ,documents etc),redo somework , with somevariations . - noun Something reworked, or made up from old materials.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb present or use over, with no or few changes
- verb go back over
- noun old material that is slightly reworked and used again
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Examples
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Usually a Singapore newspaper's idea of football coverage is tired old rehash from the English media with the odd headline about the local game if there is something nice and negative they can talk about or when it involves the Malaysia Cup days.
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I’m sorry, I don’t need critics to tell me that Ultraviolet is just another rehash from a notoriously lame genre … the action-chick-flick.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - For those of you wanting to see Ultraviolet 2006
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Bush’s Iraq rehash is a national strategy for failure:
Think Progress » Rapid Response: Deconstructing the “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq” 2005
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Bright-Sided is especially strong in its critique of Rhonda Byrne's The Secret, which Ehrenreich identifies as a rehash of earlier self-help books, and even of some principles of magic.
Jezebel 2009
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The nine o'clock is to kind of rehash the sort of analysis that we were going over the night before, to see if the premises and hypotheses that we had come up with the night before have come to pass, and what's the video evidence.
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The nine o'clock is to kind of rehash the sort of analysis that we were going over the night before, to see if the premises and hypotheses that we had come up with the night before have come to pass, and what's the video evidence.
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The nine o'clock is to kind of rehash the sort of analysis that we were going over the night before, to see if the premises and hypotheses that we had come up with the night before have come to pass, and what's the video evidence.
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The 9 o'clock is to kind of rehash the sort of analysis that we were going over the night before, to see if the premises and hypotheses that we had come up with the night before have come to pass, and what's the video evidence.
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The nine o'clock is to kind of rehash the sort of analysis that we were going over the night before, to see if the premises and hypotheses that we had come up with the night before have come to pass, and what's the video evidence.
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The nine o'clock is to kind of rehash the sort of analysis that we were going over the night before, to see if the premises and hypotheses that we had come up with the night before have come to pass, and what's the video evidence.
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