Example Sentences:

Ramayana:  Rama attacked Maricha with a blunt arrow because his purpose was just to stop the demons’ disruptive activities, not to extirpate them from the planet.

Mahabharata:  When Duryodhana realized that Ashvattama had killed the Pandavas’ sons instead of the Pandavas, he fell to the ground in lamentation, fearing that the entire next generation of the Kuru dynasty had been extirpated.

Bhagavad-gita:  Acknowledging that we are unlikely to extirpate sensual desires as long as we have a physical body, the Bhagavad-gita urges us to tolerate those desires (5.23).