rehash

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Verb

rehash (third-person singular simple present rehashes, present participle rehashing, simple past and past participle rehashed)

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

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

   The CEO of the company only rehashed a speech for the news conference.

   The general rehashed plans for the war.

Translations

to rework old material, redo some work, with some variations

• Spanish: rehacer (es), refundir (es) (literary work)

Noun

rehash (plural rehashes)

1. Something reworked, or made up from old materials.

   He wrote a bad rehash of an earlier essay.

Translations

something reworked, or made up from old materials

• Spanish: refrito (es) m ((literary) work)