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lip-reading

lip-reading is the alternative form of lipreading.

lip-reading is the present participle of lip-read.

Meaning of lipreading

Noun

lipreading (uncountable)

  1. The act of reading lips.
    Synonyms:
    speechreading

Questions about lip-reading

What is lip-reading the alternative form of?
Lip-reading is the alternative form of lipreading.

Words near lip-reading in the dictionary

  1. lip-locks
  2. lip-pierced
  3. lip-read
  4. lip-reader
  5. lip-readers
  6. lip-reading
  7. lip-reads
  8. lip-ribbon
  9. lip-server
  10. lip-servers
  11. lip-service

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lip-reading (page history and authors); lipreading (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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