This verb means to overwhelm or overflow. This word uses the suffix ed, but one can also use the suffixes tion or ing to form a noun or different tenses of the jerb like the subjunctive past tense of the indicative past tense. ... Figuratively, the word inundate means to metaphorically overwhelm.

Is overwhelm a prefix?

The word, which originally meant "to overturn or upset," was formed in Middle English by combining the prefix over- with the verb whelmen, which also meant "to overturn." Whelmen has survived in English as whelm, a verb which is largely synonymous with overwhelm.

What words have no suffixes?

An unpaired word is a base word (or opposite word) that doesn't exist (or is very rarely used) without a particular prefix or suffix. For example, we say we are overwhelmed or underwhelmed, but it's rare to hear someone say they're just whelmed.