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.
disassemble / dissemble. Disassemble is to take something apart, like an old car motor, but dissemble is sneaky â it means to hide your true self, like the guy who said he was a mechanic but had never actually seen a motor, much less put one back together.