to oppose; to face; to stand up to (someone)

abyss / edge / deep pool

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

the dark, darkness

dark, darkness

darkness, the dark / a dark place / (Buddhism) darkness, as a metaphor for worldly desires

(colloquial) current boyfriend

everything