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# Delete a contact

> Deletes the contact identified by the specified identifier.<br>Request body example:<br><br>{<br>    "type":"EMAIL",<br>    "value":"test@test.com"<br>}

## OpenAPI

````json POST /contact/delete
{
  "openapi": "3.0.4",
  "info": {
    "title": "Engage public API",
    "version": "1"
  },
  "servers": [
    {
      "url": "https://your-engage-domain.com/api/rest"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    {
      "name": "Address Attributes"
    },
    {
      "name": "Async"
    },
    {
      "name": "Audit Log"
    },
    {
      "name": "Automation"
    },
    {
      "name": "Blacklist"
    },
    {
      "name": "CMS"
    },
    {
      "name": "Contact"
    },
    {
      "name": "Content"
    },
    {
      "name": "Coupon"
    },
    {
      "name": "Draft Message"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ecommerce"
    },
    {
      "name": "Group"
    },
    {
      "name": "Group Attributes"
    },
    {
      "name": "Landing Page"
    },
    {
      "name": "Member Attributes"
    },
    {
      "name": "Membership"
    },
    {
      "name": "Message"
    },
    {
      "name": "Meta"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mobile Push"
    },
    {
      "name": "Prepared Message"
    },
    {
      "name": "Process"
    },
    {
      "name": "Profile Attributes"
    },
    {
      "name": "Related Data"
    },
    {
      "name": "Segmentation"
    },
    {
      "name": "System"
    },
    {
      "name": "System User"
    },
    {
      "name": "Usage Statistics"
    },
    {
      "name": "User"
    },
    {
      "name": "Whiteboard"
    }
  ],
  "paths": {
    "/contact/delete": {
      "post": {
        "tags": [
          "Contact"
        ],
        "summary": "Delete a contact",
        "description": "Deletes the contact identified by the specified identifier.<br>Request body example:<br><br>{<br>    \"type\":\"EMAIL\",<br>    \"value\":\"test@test.com\"<br>}",
        "operationId": "delete",
        "requestBody": {
          "content": {
            "application/json": {
              "schema": {
                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ContactIdentifier"
              }
            }
          },
          "x-bodyName": "body"
        },
        "responses": {
          "200": {
            "description": "",
            "content": {
              "application/octet-stream": {}
            }
          },
          "400": {
            "description": "",
            "content": {
              "application/octet-stream": {}
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "components": {
    "schemas": {
      "ContactIdentifier": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "type": {
            "enum": [
              "APP_ALIAS",
              "EMAIL",
              "EXTERNAL",
              "ID",
              "MOBILE"
            ],
            "type": "string"
          },
          "value": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
````