👉 In linguistics and cognitive psychology, a preaggravating word is a word that modifies an already existing word or phrase. This can occur in sentences where the preaggravating word acts as a modifier to modify another word or phrase. For example: 1. "He was very eager to learn." 2. "The dog barked at the cat." In each of these examples, the preaggravating word is used to indicate that something is already happening.