Without energy, dropout somehow got out of bed (8)
I believe the answer is:
uprooted
'out of bed' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with contact as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'without energy dropout somehow' is the wordplay.
'without' indicates putting letters inside.
'energy' becomes 'e' (physics symbol as in E=mc2).
'somehow' indicates anagramming the letters.
'dropout' is an anagram of 'uprootd'.
'e' put into 'uprootd' is 'UPROOTED'.
'got' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for uprooted that I've seen before include "Pulled (plant) out of the ground" , "Displaced from home into a foreign environment" , "Torn from natural habitat like plant" , "Pulled out of the ground, a tree perhaps" , "Forcibly removed from earth or home" .)