rehash

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To hash (chop food into small pieces) again.
2. verb To repeat with minor variation.

   Today's parliamentary session only rehashed last week's arguments.

3. verb To analyze a prior contentious or embarrassing event.

   Let's not rehash what we did last night.

4. verb To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.
5. noun Something reworked, or made up from old materials.

   He wrote a bad rehash of an earlier essay.

6. noun A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

Similar words

retrograde hash over repeat reintroduce repeating repetition resume recurrence dwell stir

Often followed by

of the old it what all that and function

Word family

rehashed rehashes rehashing