All casehardening antonyms

verb casehardening

• disarrange — to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
• disorder — lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion: Your room is in utter disorder.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• unfit — not fit; not adapted or suited; unsuitable: He was unfit for his office.
• weaken — to make weak or weaker.
• indulge — to yield to an inclination or desire; allow oneself to follow one's will (often followed by in): Dessert came, but I didn't indulge. They indulged in unbelievable shopping sprees.
• liquefy — Make or become liquid.
• melt — to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
• soften — to make soft or softer.
• spoil — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
• continue — If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
• dilute — to make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by the addition of water or the like.
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
• disjoin — to undo or prevent the junction or union of; disunite; separate.
• dissolve — to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
• dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
• divide — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
• flex — to bend, as a part of the body: He flexed his arms to show off his muscles.
• hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• loosen — to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
• open — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
• separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
• thin — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
• unfix — to render no longer fixed; unfasten; detach; loosen; free.
• unsettle — to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
• upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.