pillage vs devastation

pillage and devastation both are nouns.

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

As nouns, devastation is a hyponym of pillage; that is, devastation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pillage:

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

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