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tease has 30 distinct synonyms spread across 8 of its 12 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them
“The advertisement is intended to tease the customers”
tear into pieces
“tease tissue for microscopic examinations”
mock or make fun of playfully
“the flirting man teased the young woman”
someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for tease come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
“he ignored their teases”