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食べてみる means to eat and see, aka try eating, but can you do this:

食べないでみる meaning "I'm gonna try not eating"

例えば

今日お風呂を入らないで見たい。臭くなりますか？
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て-form negation
using みる with the negative で form of a verb
> 食べてみる means to eat and see

In my experience, it used in the context of trying something to see if you
like it. Someone might pass you something and say 食べてみて...

The negative form you mentioned, 食べないでみる, is strange in this context. Like
saying "Don't try this and tell me what you think". However, in the context of
some other purpose is OK as in "I think I'll not eat today to see if helps my
stomachache"
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今日お風呂に入らないでみたい is a valid sentence. Don't use kanji for 見たい since it's a
subsidiary verb here. And it's お風呂 **に** 入る, not お風呂を入る.

Here are the three examples found on BCCWJ:

  * 4日ほどこちらからメールをしないでみてください。
  * 今回は（チェックを）入れないでみますね！
  * 今！ 絶対に！ 寝ないでみてください！

But the number of the examples was smaller than I expected, which may mean
this construction is relatively uncommon.
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