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.

  • noun Something hashed afresh; something concocted from materials formerly used: as, a literary rehash.
  • To hash anew; work up, as old material, in a new form.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Something hashed over, or made up from old materials.
  • transitive verb To hash over again; to prepare or use again.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To rework old material (physical material, ideas, documents etc), redo some work, with some variations.
  • 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

  • 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.

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2010

  • 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

  • Bush’s Iraq rehash is a national strategy for failure:

    Think Progress » Rapid Response: Deconstructing the “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq” 2005

  • 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

  • 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.

    More From Jon Stewart's 'Fresh Air' Interview 2010

  • 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.

    More From Jon Stewart's 'Fresh Air' Interview 2010

  • 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.

    More From Jon Stewart's 'Fresh Air' Interview 2010

  • 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.

    Jon Stewart: The Most Trusted Name In Fake News 2010

  • 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.

    More From Jon Stewart's 'Fresh Air' Interview 2010

  • 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.

    More From Jon Stewart's 'Fresh Air' Interview 2010

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