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
Kyung-Ja	gyung-jah	Korean
Blaguna	-	Macedonian, Bulgarian
Olwen	-	Welsh
Hiltrud	HIL-troot	German
Alena	-	German, Czech, Slovak, Slovene
Merfyn	-	Welsh