"dance on someone's grave" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: dances on someone's grave [present, singular, third-person], dancing on someone's grave [participle, present], danced on someone's grave [participle, past], danced on someone's grave [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} dance on someone's grave (third-person singular simple present dances on someone's grave, present participle dancing on someone's grave, simple past and past participle danced on someone's grave)
  1. (idiomatic) To celebrate a person's death or downfall triumphantly. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Death Related terms: piss on someone's grave, schadenfreude

Inflected forms

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