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lipreading

[lip-ree-ding]

lip·read·ing

[lip-ree-ding]
noun
the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
Compare speechreading.


Origin:
1870–75; lipread + -ing1

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lip·read

[lip-reed] verb, -read [-red] , -read·ing.
verb (used with object)
1.
to understand spoken words by interpreting the movements of a speaker's lips without hearing the sounds made.
verb (used without object)
2.
to use lipreading.
Compare speechread.


Origin:
1890–95; lip + read1

lip·read·er, noun
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lipreading

noun
perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips 
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