Definition of "lip-read" [lip-read]

• To interpret (utterances) by lip reading. (verb-transitive)
• To interpret utterances by lip reading. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I had a number of conversations with my students using a combination of fractured ASL and lip-read English."
• "I was told by one of my reviewers that one of the most fascinating stories in the book was about how I learned how to speak and lip-read."
• "If my own charming schooling experience was any indication, people would thoughtfully stand so as to make sure that the deaf and hearing-impaired girls could lip-read when they made this type of comment, or would helpfully attempt to translate it into sign despite not speaking ASL, so "perhaps they didn't hear" does not strike me as a possibility."