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.
1 [transitive] disassemble something to take apart a machine or structure so that it is in separate pieces We had to completely disassemble the engine to find the problem. opposite assemble 2 [transitive] disassemble something (computing) to translate something from computer code into a language that can be read by humans See related entries: Computer programming 3 [intransitive] (formal) (of a group of people) to move apart and go away in different directions The concert ended and the crowd disassembled.