Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive idiomatic English) To lipread.
Usage examples of "read lips".
He could read lips, but things like groans and moans were a mystery to him.
Somehow everybody seems to think that all deaf people know how to read lips-that they could pick it up in a week, themselves, if the need ever arose.
Somehow everybody seems to think that all deaf people know how to read lips—.
This permitted Doc, using his periscope device from a side window, to read lips.
Since Monk could read lips with about the ease with which he could read ancient Egyptian blindfolded, Doc had to answer aloud.
He stood partially between her and his boss so that even if she could read lips she would have no opportunity to do so.
I closed my eyes and let Gairloch carry me, because my eyes were filled with white fire from the effort to hear and read lips.
If I got the right angle, though I couldn't hear from the undertime, I could see, and I was beginning to read lips.
His eyes shifted too quickly, the only hint that he was trying to read lips.
Though we shall be unable to hear what you say, we can read lips well enough.
The man must have a reporter's sixth sense, or else he could read lips.