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
ŠPela	-	Slovene
Meta	ME-tah (German)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Stepan	stye-PAHN (Russian), stee-PAHN (Russian)	Russian, Armenian
Pooja	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Nepali
Cleopas	KLEE-ə-pəs (English)	Biblical, Biblical Latin
Jamison	JAY-mi-sən	English