lip read
past tense of lip-read
/lɪp rid/
verb
- To understand what someone is saying by watching the movements of their lips, especially when you cannot hear them clearly.
- She learned to lip-read as a child because she was born deaf.
- In the noisy restaurant, I tried to lip-read what my friend was saying across the table.
- The teacher spoke clearly so that the student with hearing loss could lip-read.
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