1. to understand speech by watching the movements of a speaker's lips, typically without hearing the sound
Usage: often used by deaf or hard-of-hearing people; can be transitive or intransitive

Examples

• She learned to lipread after losing her hearing.
• He can lipread conversations across the room.
• The interpreter helped her lipread the speaker's words.
• Many deaf students lipread in classroom settings.
• She lipreads the news anchor every evening.
• He struggled to lipread in dim lighting.
• The child was taught to lipread as part of her speech therapy.