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Noun: lipreading  'lip,ree-ding
  1. The skill of understanding speech by observing lip movements and facial expressions
    "She relied on lipreading to understand the conversation in the noisy room"
Verb: lipread (lipread)  lip reed
  1. Interpret by lipreading; of deaf people
    "Those words which were easy to lipread should be identified better as rhyming than those which were difficult to lip-read";
    - lip-read, speech-read

Derived forms: lipreadings

Type of: perception, read, sensing

Encyclopedia: Lipreading

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