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rehashing

rehashing is the present participle and gerund 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.

See all 6 meanings of rehash

Noun

rehashing (plural rehashings)

  1. The act by which something is rehashed.
    • tired rehashings of old themes

Forms of rehashing

pluralrehashings

Questions about rehashing

What does rehashing mean?
Rehashing means the act by which something is rehashed.
What is rehashing the present participle and gerund of?
Rehashing is the present participle and gerund of rehash.
What part of speech is rehashing?
Rehashing is a noun.
What is the plural of rehashing?
The plural of rehashing is rehashings.

Words near rehashing in the dictionary

  1. rehashable
  2. rehashed
  3. rehasher
  4. rehashers
  5. rehashes
  6. rehashing
  7. rehashings
  8. rehat
  9. rehats
  10. rehatted
  11. rehatting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rehashing (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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