How Potholes Form. Rainwater sinks through cracks in old or weakened asphalt. The water is soaked up by the mixture of rock, gravel, and sand that supports the road. Vehicles passing over the road force water through the soggy roadbed, eventually eroding parts of it.
disassemble The verb disassemble means to take something apart. It's one thing to disassemble a computer; it's a whole other thing to put it back together again.
To injure, disable, or disfigure, usually by depriving of the use of a limb or other part of the body. See Synonyms at mangle. 2. To make imperfect or defective; impair: The presumption of innocence has already been maimed ... for foreign Muslims (Nicholas D. Kristof).