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lip-read

/ ˈlɪpˌriːd /

verb

  1. to interpret (words) by lip-reading
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

This lip-read video clarifies what NFL football players, coaches and referees are actually talking about on the field.

She camouflaged her disability by learning to lip-read in multiple languages.

Mrs. Ambrose thought he was talking about domestic servants, because she had lip-read the word "cook."

They can gain knowledge by sight, he maintained; can write, converse by signs, speak and lip-read.

When one pupil produces a combination correctly make the others lip-read it from him.

After a moment, the psychologist turned his head to the doctor and Bennington lip-read the word, "hypno."

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