read someone's lips (English, verb)
expansion: read someone's lips (third-person singular simple present reads someone's lips, present participle reading someone's lips, simple past and past participle read someone's lips)
Senses:
glosses: To discern what someone is saying by watching the shape of the mouth rather than by hearing the sounds of the words.
glosses: To pay close attention (often imperative).
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: reads someone's lips
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reading someone's lips
tags: participle
present
form: read someone's lips
tags: participle
past
form: read someone's lips
tags: past