See infirm in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{
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{
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},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "weak; feeble",
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},
{
"code": "de",
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"word": "schwach"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"text": "The thought is that you see an episode of observation, experiment, or reasoning as confirming or infirming a hypothesis depending on whether your probability for it increases or decreases during the episode.",
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"word": "disconfirm"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "protivoreča",
"sense": "contradict",
"word": "противореча"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
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}
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}
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