The phrase "alter or delete" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes to data, documents, or files, indicating the options to modify or remove content.
Example: "You have the option to alter or delete any entries in the database as needed."
Alternatives: "modify or remove" or "change or erase".
The agency also allowed cable companies to alter or delete "abusive comments" from Al Jazeera programs.
So if police did use a stun gun, it should be impossible to alter or delete this information.
He can use gestures to draw, alter, or delete other objects, as well as to change their position or orientation.
But the system, which is essentially a molecular scalpel, makes it possible to alter or delete any sequence in a genome of billions of nucleotides.
Working through the BigString Web site, the subscriber can alter or delete the e-mail page from the BigString server; the recipient will see only the latest version.
Now however, there appears to be a concerted effort under way in Udmurtia to alter or delete the images taken that day.
In most models, a single gene is altered or deleted while other genes and the environment are held constant.
Snapshots of responses were captured at every instant information was added, altered, or deleted by respondents when completing the survey.
Numerous mentions of "climate change," "greenhouse gasses" and other phrases related to global warming have been found to be altered or deleted from another portion of the Environmental Protection Agency's website, according to a new environmental watchdog report.
Thus a host of fresh guidelines might be required to fill this void or the existing guidelines modified (supplemented, altered or deleted) to be relevant to this part of the world.
In works of temporal art, each part develops or evolves into the next, each part being necessary to the succeeding part, so that if an earlier part were altered or deleted, all the subsequent parts would have to be altered in consequence.
