dance on someone's grave
dance on someone's grave verb: to celebrate a person's death or downfall triumphantly.
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)
- To celebrate a person's death or downfall triumphantly.
- This is all aside from my personal disgust at the idea that we should spare any thought for those who would kill us. No one is suggesting dancing on their graves, but neither should we shed even a fraction of a tear for them.2006 May 1, Lisa, “Spilling out drops of wine at the Seder”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet)
Forms of dance on someone's grave
| third-person singular present | dances on someone's grave |
|---|---|
| present participle | dancing on someone's grave |
| past participle | danced on someone's grave |
| past | danced on someone's grave |
Questions about dance on someone's grave
- What does dance on someone's grave mean?
- Dance on someone's grave means to celebrate a person's death or downfall triumphantly.
- What part of speech is dance on someone's grave?
- Dance on someone's grave is a verb.
- What is the past tense of dance on someone's grave?
- The past tense of dance on someone's grave is danced on someone's grave.
Words near dance on someone's grave in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dance on someone's grave (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.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dance on someone's grave.wav.
Cite this entry: “dance on someone's grave.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dance_on_someone%27s_grave. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.