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lip-read

lip-read is the alternative form of lipread.

Meaning of lipread

Verb

lipread (third-person singular simple present lipreads, present participle lipreading, simple past and past participle lipread)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To determine a person's speech by watching the movement of their lips.

Forms of lip-read

third-person singular presentlip-reads
present participlelip-reading
past participlelip-read
pastlip-read

Questions about lip-read

What is lip-read the alternative form of?
Lip-read is the alternative form of lipread.

Words near lip-read in the dictionary

  1. lip-lock
  2. lip-locked
  3. lip-locking
  4. lip-locks
  5. lip-pierced
  6. lip-read
  7. lip-reader
  8. lip-readers
  9. lip-reading
  10. lip-reads
  11. lip-ribbon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lip-read (page history and authors); lipread (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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