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read lips

read lips verb: to lipread.

Verb

read lips (third-person singular simple present reads lips, present participle reading lips, simple past and past participle read lips)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To lipread.

Forms of read lips

third-person singular presentreads lips
present participlereading lips
past participleread lips
pastread lips

Questions about read lips

What does read lips mean?
Read lips means to lipread.
What part of speech is read lips?
Read lips is a verb.
What is the past tense of read lips?
The past tense of read lips is read lips.

Words near read lips in the dictionary

  1. read into
  2. read length
  3. read lengths
  4. read like a book
  5. read like an open book
  6. read lips
  7. read me
  8. read mes
  9. read minds
  10. read my lips
  11. read off

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