Meaning

1 senses

  1. To determine a person's speech by watching the movement of their lips.

    von den Lippen lesen

More definitions
  • interpret by lipreading; of deaf people

Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
determine what a person is saying by watching or observing the movement of their lips.:

Origin

From lip + read.

From lip + read.

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Forms

lipreads, lipreading, lipread, lipread
Base formlipread · to lipread
3rd person singularlipreads
Present participlelipreading
Past simplelipread
Past participlelipread

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theylipread
he, she, itlipreads

Past simpleLesson

all personslipread

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave lipread
he, she, ithas lipread

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill lipread

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • interpret by lipreading; of deaf people:lip-readspeech-read

Word family

2 related words
Relatedlipreading
Derivedlipreader

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
lionesslipA2lipidlipstickliquefyliqueur

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