mouth the words
Speak without sound
To mouth the words is to move your lips as if speaking without producing sound, or while someone else provides the audio.
Singers mouth the words when lip-syncing to a recording: She mouthed the words to the national anthem.
You might mouth words across a noisy room when speaking aloud would be pointless or inappropriate.
- lip-readingInterpreting speech visually
- mimingWordless gestural performance
- parrotingMechanical verbal imitation
- gestureCommunicative body movement
- subvocalizationSilent mental pronunciation
phonation · echoing · articulation · unvoiced · mirroring · facial expression · enunciation · inaudible · under your breath · impersonating · lip-sync · read my lips · shadowing · vocal mimicry · fake it · visual cues · pantomime · sing along