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
Niven	-	Scottish
Oneida	o-NIE-də	English
Neelima	-	Indian, Marathi, Hindi, Telugu
Elfleda	-	English (Archaic)
Bohumila	-	Czech
Bethan	BETH-an	Welsh