devastation vs pillage

devastation and pillage both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
devastation	Yes	No	No	No
pillage	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, pillage is a hypernym of devastation; that is, pillage is a word with a broader meaning than devastation:

Other hypernyms of devastation include pillaging, plundering.

devastation (noun)	pillage (noun)
the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists	the act of stealing valuable things from a place
plundering with excessive damage and destruction	goods or money obtained illegally
an event that results in total destruction
the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed
the state of being decayed or destroyed

devastation (verb)	pillage (verb)
	steal goods; take as spoils