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Small bird with red bird’s tail getting yanked (8)

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I believe the answer is:

wrenched

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'yanked' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with contact as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'small bird with red bird's tail' is the wordplay.
'small bird' becomes 'wren' (I've seen this in another clue).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'red' becomes 'Che' (Che Guevara the Marxist revolutionary).
'tail' indicates one should take the final letters.
The last letter of 'bird' is 'd'.
'wren'+'che'+'d'='WRENCHED'

'getting' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for wrenched that I've seen before include "pulled" , "forced away" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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