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rehashed

rehashed is the simple past and past participle of rehash.

Meaning of rehash

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To hash (chop food into small pieces) again.
    • I never did care for Sunday joint that was served up cold on Monday, hashed on Tuesday, rissoled on Wednesday, and re-hashed on Thursday[.]1942 July 1, The Newcastle and Maitland Catholic Sentinel, Newcastle, NSW, page 224, column 2
  2. (transitive) To repeat with minor variation.
    • Today's parliamentary session only rehashed last week's arguments.
  3. (transitive) To analyze a prior contentious or embarrassing event.
    • Let's not rehash what we did last night.
  4. (transitive) To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

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Questions about rehashed

What is rehashed the simple past and past participle of?
Rehashed is the simple past and past participle of rehash.

Words near rehashed in the dictionary

  1. reharvesting
  2. reharvests
  3. rehas
  4. rehash
  5. rehashable
  6. rehashed
  7. rehasher
  8. rehashers
  9. rehashes
  10. rehashing
  11. rehashings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rehashed (page history and authors); rehash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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