All 3 Uses of

traverse
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Light in August

She rises and walking a little awkwardly, a little carefully, she traverses the ranked battery of maneyes and enters the store, the clerk following.†
Chpt 1 *

traverses = travels across

Progress now is still progress, yet it is now indistinguishable from the recent past like the already traversed inches of sand which cling to the turning wheel, raining back with a dry hiss that before this should have warned him: '...revealed to my wife my hunger, my ego ...instrument of her despair and shame ...and without his having thought it at all, a sentence seems to stand fullsprung across his skull, behind his eyes: I don't want to think this.†
Chpt 20

traversed = traveled across

In his sweatstained overalls he would traverse the late twilight of May and enter the kitchen.†
Chpt 12

Definitions:

(1) (traverse)
travel across
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

Traverse is used in many senses. All the common ones reference crossing something; e.g., crossing terrain, a beam that extends across something, etc. A comprehensive dictionary will show less common meanings.