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

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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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