[lip-ree-ding] 
| the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made. |
[lip-reed] verb, -read [-red] , -read⋅ing.| 1. | to understand spoken words by interpreting the movements of a speaker's lips without hearing the sounds made. |
| 2. | to use lipreading. |
| lip reading n. A technique for understanding unheard speech by interpreting the lip and facial movements of the speaker. lip reader n. |
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