rechew

verb

1. To chew again.

   “Nor could He (as some Beasts rechew their meat, To cause the same the better to disgest) Rechew this Bread,”

   “When nibbling Sheep at large pursue their Food, And unmolested Kine rechew the Cud;”

   “The sailor now drew from the receptacle just named a dirty piece of folded paper, deeply impregnated with the perfume of stale and oft rechewed quids of coarse tobacco;”

   “The harder Small sang, the harder the cow chewed and the faster she twiddled her ears around as if stirring the song into the food to be rechewed in cud along with her breakfast.”

2. (figuratively)To go over or ponder again.

   “His mind insisted on rechewing its doubts, rather than engage in constructive thought.”

   “[…] his disease is mostly impatience with contemporary trends in art and literature that have passed him by. And so he rechews the classics, “which those ignorant fellows never bothered to read,” […]”

   “By noon on that first day, the networks had run out of new information. Drained of every fresh fact, they went right on reporting anyway, chewing and rechewing the same small chunks of news.”