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
Raoul	-	French, Italian
Gertruida	-	Dutch
Justus	YUWS-tuws (German), JUS-təs (English)	German, Dutch, Late Roman
Crocetta	kro-CHET-tah	Italian
DemİR	-	Turkish
Gerald	['dʒerəld]