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
Chadwick	CHAD-wik	English
Elah	-	Hebrew, Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Sikandar	-	Urdu, Pashto
Suvi	SOO-vee	Finnish
Suzan (1)	SOO-zən	English
ŽEljko	-	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene