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
CathÁN	-	Irish
Idir	-	Northern African, Berber
Sameer (2)	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati
Bao	-	Chinese
Achieng	-	Eastern African, Luo
Manlio	-	Italian