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
Audo	-	Ancient Germanic
Lucia	loo-CHEE-ah (Italian), LOO-tsee-ah (German), LOO-shə (English), loo-SEE-ə (English)	Italian, German, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Slovak, Ancient Roman
Yannic	-	Breton, French
Aylen	-	Native American, Mapuche
Utu	-	Near Eastern Mythology
Ognyana	-	Bulgarian