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/Sounds like "ehm" (as in "egg") + "boh" (as in "boat") + "beh" (as in "bed") + "SEHR" (as in "set")/

Meaning

To leave someone completely mesmerized and unable to think clearly, absorbed by something or someone that has total control over their attention. In Colombia and Venezuela, when something embobes you, it has so much magnetic pull that it disconnects you from everything else around you.

Examples

That singer leaves anyone who hears her live completely spellbound.

I get completely lost every time she talks, I can't follow anything else.

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Regional synonyms

To cost a massive amount of effort, struggle, or sacrifice to achieve. Similar to "it cost me an arm and a leg" but focused on effort rather than money. Used across much of Latin America and Spain when something was brutally hard to pull off.