rehash.
To hash (chop food into small pieces) again.
Meaning & usage
To hash (chop food into small pieces) again.
To repeat with minor variation.
Today's parliamentary session only rehashed last week's arguments.
The CEO of the company only rehashed a speech for the news conference.
To analyze a prior contentious or embarrassing event.
Let's not rehash what we did last night.
To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English hash English rehash From re- + hash.
Something reworked, or made up from old materials.
He wrote a bad rehash of an earlier essay.
A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English hash English rehash From re- + hash.
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