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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 pillow
  2. lip plate
  3. lip plates
  4. lip plug
  5. lip plugs
  6. lip read
  7. lip reading
  8. lip reads
  9. lip religion
  10. lip religions
  11. lip salve

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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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