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Yes. You can just straight up delete the windows partition. Windows just won't boot anymore, even though doing only this won't remove it from the boot menu.
You can do this from your running linux install, but if you want to grow the linux partition to take up the free space, you'll need to do that from a live usb.
No changes should be necessary. Just delete the windows partition, and grow the linux partition.
Make sure you keep the efi partition, and swap partition, if there is one.
Note: the growing the partition from a live USB thing is only necessary if you want it all to be one partition. If it's a separate drive, or even if it's not, you can just format the old Windows partition/drive and mount it as a new storage volume.