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
Ballaam	['bæləm]
Mitrofan	mee-trah-FAHN	Russian
Thaddaios	-	Biblical Greek
Albaer	al-BER	Limburgish
Morgan (1)	MAWR-gən (English)	Welsh, English, French
Kevyn	KEV-in	English (Rare)