read lips

read someone's lips

to manage to understand speech by watching and interpreting the movements of the speaker's lips. I couldn't hear her but I could read her lips.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Boutros	-	Arabic, Coptic
Sharleen	shahr-LEEN	English
Mirek	MEE-rek (Polish)	Czech, Slovak, Polish
AnĐElka	-	Croatian
Alexia	ə-LEK-see-ə (English)	French, English (Modern)
Wenceslas	WEN-səs-laws (English)	History