read sb's lips
to follow the movements of someone's lips in order to understand what is being said, especially if you are unable to hear them speak:
She read his lips across the busy conference hall - "Time to go."
See also
lip-read
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Reading
- cross-reference
- deconstruct
- deconstruction
- devour
- dyslexia
- flip
- hermeneutic
- leaf through sth
- read sth over/through
- readable
- reader
- readership
- reading
- reading knowledge
- reference
- riffle
- semiotics
- skim
- thumb
- thumb through sth
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