"disconfirm" meaning in English

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    }
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "dis- + confirm",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "disconfirms",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "disconfirming",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "disconfirmed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "disconfirmed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with dis-",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1943, Carl G. Hempel, “A Purely Syntactical Definition of Confirmation”, in The Journal of Symbolic Logic, volume 8, number 4, page 122",
          "text": "The empirical data obtained in a test—or, as we shall prefer to say, the observation sentences describing those data—may then either confirm or disconfirm the given hypothesis, or they may be neutral with respect to it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To establish the falsity of a claim or belief; to show or to tend to show that a theory or hypothesis is not valid."
      ],
      "id": "en-disconfirm-en-verb-GXFHqhO~",
      "links": [
        [
          "falsity",
          "falsity"
        ],
        [
          "claim",
          "claim"
        ],
        [
          "belief",
          "belief"
        ],
        [
          "tend",
          "tend"
        ],
        [
          "theory",
          "theory"
        ],
        [
          "hypothesis",
          "hypothesis"
        ],
        [
          "valid",
          "valid"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To establish the falsity of a claim or belief; to show or to tend to show that a theory or hypothesis is not valid."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "disconfirmable"
        },
        {
          "word": "disconfirmation"
        },
        {
          "word": "disconfirmatory"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "infirm"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to establish the falsity of a claim or belief",
          "word": "afkræfte"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to establish the falsity of a claim or belief",
          "word": "desconfirmar"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "disconfirm"
}

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    {
      "word": "confirm"
    }
  ],
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    {
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "dis- + confirm",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "disconfirms",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "disconfirming",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "disconfirmed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "disconfirmed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "disconfirmable"
    },
    {
      "word": "disconfirmation"
    },
    {
      "word": "disconfirmatory"
    }
  ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1943, Carl G. Hempel, “A Purely Syntactical Definition of Confirmation”, in The Journal of Symbolic Logic, volume 8, number 4, page 122",
          "text": "The empirical data obtained in a test—or, as we shall prefer to say, the observation sentences describing those data—may then either confirm or disconfirm the given hypothesis, or they may be neutral with respect to it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To establish the falsity of a claim or belief; to show or to tend to show that a theory or hypothesis is not valid."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "falsity",
          "falsity"
        ],
        [
          "claim",
          "claim"
        ],
        [
          "belief",
          "belief"
        ],
        [
          "tend",
          "tend"
        ],
        [
          "theory",
          "theory"
        ],
        [
          "hypothesis",
          "hypothesis"
        ],
        [
          "valid",
          "valid"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive) To establish the falsity of a claim or belief; to show or to tend to show that a theory or hypothesis is not valid."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "infirm"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to establish the falsity of a claim or belief",
      "word": "afkræfte"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to establish the falsity of a claim or belief",
      "word": "desconfirmar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "disconfirm"
}