English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)
DISASSEMBLE or DISSEMBLE?
Disassemble means to take something to pieces or to come apart:
The piston can be disassembled.
The crowd began to disassemble.
Dissemble is to conceal or disguise one’s true feelings, beliefs or intention. It also means to put on the appearance of:
He accused the government of dissembling.
She lay down down and dissembled sleep.
GAB
