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.
See also: lip, read

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
ŠPela-Slovene
MetaME-tah (German)German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Stepanstye-PAHN (Russian), stee-PAHN (Russian)Russian, Armenian
Pooja-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Nepali
CleopasKLEE-ə-pəs (English)Biblical, Biblical Latin
JamisonJAY-mi-sənEnglish