# Does ElasticSearch support dampening synonyms?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-support-dampening-synonyms/352138>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 30, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-support-dampening-synonyms/352138 "2024-01-30T20:40:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![William\_Ades](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/william_ades/32/131249_2.png) [@William\_Ades](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/William_Ades)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-support-dampening-synonyms/352138/1 "2024-01-30T20:40:33Z")

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Our project is currently using Elasticsearch synonyms and we want to dampen the scores returned by matched synonyms. In other words, we want matches to keywords provided in a search query to score higher than matches to the keyword's synonyms.

I was following the threads in [this pull request](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/35422). Additionally, the Lucene improvement LUCENE-8652, which should have provided support for this feature. However, I do not see any documentation for dampening in the synonym API.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-support-dampening-synonyms/352138/2 "2024-02-27T20:40:35Z")

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Closed on February 27, 2024, 8:40pm UTC

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