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
Pilar	pee-LAHR	Spanish
Tye	TIE	English
Butrus	-	Arabic, Coptic
Shan	SHAN	Welsh
Petronela	-	Romanian, Slovak, Polish
Kalyana	-	Indian, Telugu