1. the practice of understanding speech by watching the movements of a speaker’s lips and mouth

Examples

• She learned lipreading after losing her hearing in childhood.
• The deaf student relied on lipreading to follow the lecture.
• Lipreading requires good lighting and a clear view of the speaker’s face.
• Many people with hearing loss use a combination of lipreading and sign language.
• The interpreter was skilled in both sign language and lipreading.
• Lipreading can be challenging when the speaker has a mustache or beard.