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
Krikor	-	Armenian
Wyot	-	Medieval English
Bleddyn	BLEDH-in	Welsh
Urijah	-	Biblical
Gonca	-	Turkish
Lazarus	LAZ-ər-əs (English)	Biblical, Biblical Latin